Re: gnome-terminal crashing because of fonts

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I had this exact same problem over the weekend. Ran it under gdb, saw it
was crashing in some Xft font call, so I check to see which Xft it
linked against. Turns out it was linked to both Xft2 and Xft1.

Relinked vte and gnome-terminal by hand (since vte is where Xft1 was
getting pulled in from) but things still didn't work (different crasher
tho - it is now crashing in some vte set_pattern call iirc, where the
new_font->pattern is NULL or some such).

someone on #gnome mentioned that I should check what fonts fontconfig
had (forget the command) and it was empty.

this may help you track down the problem further. I was too lazy to go
and find fonts and install them. I'm perfectly happy with my gnome 1.4
term :-)

Jeff

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:38, Dimitar Haralanov wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> 	I am having a problem where gnome-terminal 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 crash every
> time when started because it claims, the Sans font is not found. I have
> filed a bug on bugzilla.gnome.org (#107285) and there are other bugs on
> this but the developers claim that this is problem with Xft.
> 	The bug that I am talking about has the following symptoms: on startup,
> gnome terminal displays the following message on the screen:
> 
> ** (gnome-terminal:22011): WARNING **: Failed to load Xft font pattern
> "Sans-8:slant=0:weight=100", falling back to default font.
> 
> and then, it prompty crashes and the crash dialog is displayed. The only
> lead that gnome developers have given me is that gnome-terminal might be
> using Xft1 instead of Xft2. I have Xft2 and it seems to work with all
> other Gnome 2.2 applications.
> 
> 	Has anyone been able to figure this one out?
> 	Thanx
> 		-- Mitko
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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