Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes X on some mail

[Jim Shepherd <jimshep mindspring com>]

On 01 May 2001 10:35:57 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > I should also mention that Evolution, and just in the last few weeks, is
> > the only application (and the only time) that I have ever had XFree86
> > 4.0.x crash.  The crash is very repeatable in that the emails that cause
> > the crash, always cause the crash.
> >
> > How can I get a crash dump from X that might give evidence as to what is
> > causing the crashes?
>
> I had the same problem recently. $20 says it's a problem with one or
> more of your fonts (or how XFree deals with them). I did have xfstt
> running and removing it didn't help, so I walked through the list of TT
> fonts on my system and some of them crashed my X server. The reason why
> certain mails crash it is because it explicitly references those fonts.
>
> It took me a while, but I found the problem by firing up a bare X
> session and running gfontsel and walking through the list of fonts until
> it crashed my X server. Delete the font, regenerate the font list with
> ttmkfdir, repeat.
>
> Joe

Thanks, that did it.  I ended up just removing all of the fonts I had
imported from Windows, and the crashes went away.  Thanks again.

-Jim