Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

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?
> 

The fonts-cache files are part of the new font handling in Redhat 8.0, 
which BTW is not RH specific, but seem to be the future font system in 
XFree (RH only are the first distro to have it incorporated).
This is all nicely outlined by Havoc Pennington here:

https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/002797.html

Klaus