Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote:
> 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.

Seems that some Mandrake folks are having problems too.  Do you have a
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 ?

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