Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

[Collins]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:06:22 -0500 Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>
wrote:
> On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:46 pm, someone claiming to be Net
> Llama! wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Perhaps. There's nothing of the sort on my RH 7.0 and Suse 8.1 boxen
> at work...
> 
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Probably XFree4.2.1?  A brief google leads me to believe this.  There
are at least two new XFree4.2.1-r? ebuilds that haven't been marked
stable yet, so I will ask this question (now that I understand the
parameters a little bettrer) on gentoo-user and let you know what I
find out.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 sytem