Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

[Ted Ozolins]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote:
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>>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?
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>No such file exists in Redhat.  Perhaps this is something specific to
>Gentoo?
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I see there is fonts.cache-1 in the xfree-4.2.1.ebuild perhaps a place 
to start?

-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.

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