Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:43:17 -0500 From: Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@comcast.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Revisited: firefox and xemacs locking up/crashing "in pairs"??? Message-ID: <864qs85hu2.fsf@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <15980000.1080520733@palle.girgensohn.se> (Palle Girgensohn's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2004 02:38:53 %2B0200") References: <15980000.1080520733@palle.girgensohn.se>
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>>> "PG" == Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes: PG> Hi, PG> Remember this old thread? It's been a while, I've been running PG> firebird 0.6.1, rock stable, since higher versions crash. PG> I just updated firefox again, to 0.8_4, to see if this has PG> changed, and I think I have pinned down what causes the error, PG> although I still can't understand why. PG> It is the bitmapped fonts from the XFree86-75dpi | 100dpi PG> packages, that firefox cannot stand. Removing those directories PG> from the system's root fonts.cache-1 file makes the problem go PG> away. PG> Details: PG> Firefox >= 0.7 crashes often, and sometimes xemacs freezes as this PG> happens. PG> I have a standard X setup (well right now the X server is 3.3.99 PG> snap, but it wasn't before, and this has nothing to do with it). I PG> use xfs for serving all fonts, but this seems also to be beside PG> the point - AFAIKT, firefox uses fontconfig/freetype2 and not X PG> for font rendering, right? If fontconfig/freetype2 is one of the suspects here, then I am not sure why XEmacs should freeze. XEmacs doesnt use either. Unless you are using the patch floating around that makes XEmacs use Xft or fontconfig, I am not sure which. When this freeze happens, does XEmacs return to life? Does changing the XEmacs' default font using Options menu cause it to not freeze? Sorry, I am approaching this from the XEmacs' side and not Firefox's, and I am not sure how useful that is for you. I use XEmacs 21.5 (although I compiled from source, without the patch) and linux-mozillafirebird 0.7 and I dont see this problem. [...] kaarthik
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