Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:21 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama!
> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I have a .fonts-cache-1 file in my RH8.0 home directory, and all my users'
> homes as well...

Hrmmm...perhaps its an 8.0 thing?  I can't find it on my 7.3, 7.2, 7.1 or
6.2 boxes.

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