Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote:
> This is mozilla 1.2.1.  I didn't have strace, so I emerged it and ran
> strace.  mozilla was segfaulting while handling fonts.
>
> A lengthy analysis of a good strace (collins) and a failure (new)
> indicated differences in handling the ~/.fonts.cache-1 file.  I tried
> rm'ing the file and tried again, but no joy.  Next I copied over the
> /home/collins/.fonts.cache-1 file, and now mozilla will start.
>
> This could be an XFree problem (?).  Now that a usable
> ~/.fonts-cache-1 file is present, the warning messages I got from xfce
> have disappeared as well.  Does anyone know which packaged generates
> the .fonts.cache-1 file so that I could investigate further?

No such file exists in Redhat.  Perhaps this is something specific to
Gentoo?

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