Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

[Collins]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:43:41 -0500 Klaus-Peter Schrage
<kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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
> 

Unfortunately, the Pennington article is a bit too Red Hat specific to
be of any use.  I have a non-RedHat system that has been XFree 4.2.1
since install, but I'm experiencing problems now with new users, and
it all points to the same type of thing.  I've reported this to gentoo
to see if they know anything else.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 sytem