Re: mozilla and mozilla-devel crash constantly with yesterday's sources.

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 03:31, Patrick MARIE wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:35:30AM -0700, eculp_at_encontacto.net wrote:
> > My Mozilla and mozilla-devel are both crashing for no aparent reason and
> > without dumping core since making world yesterday.  I'm using versions
> > mozilla-1.3,2 and mozilla-1.4a,1 although it doesn't seem to be a mozilla
> > problem.
> > Until yesterday, I was happily using only mozilla-devel. When the problem
> > began yesterday morning, after make world, I compiled the mozilla release
> > and it did the same.  I happened to have opera-6.12.20030305 installed on
> > the same laptop and it works fine not that that means anything :-).
> > 
> > I have nothing really tangible as to the cause.  It is really strange.  Is
> > anyone else seeing this or have an idea as to what I could have done to
> > this to happen from one day to the next?
> > 
> > # uname -a
> > FreeBSD worldinternet.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Apr 11
> > 07:17:54 PDT 2003     root_at_worldinternet.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIII850  i386
> > Compaq Presario 1700
> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   Well, i got the same problem. After some investigations, i ve found that
> that the update of the freetype2 port from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 was in fault.
> (At least, while downgrading it, mozilla worked fine again here.)
> 
> With mozilla -g -d gdb
> (gdb) run http://www.oswd.org/toptitle.phtml?id=992\&title=AstroBeeb
> [...]
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x294faa10 in XftLockFace () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x294faa10 in XftLockFace () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2
> #1  0x294cf1b8 in nsFontMetricsXft::CacheFontMetrics() ()
> 
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft/work/fcpackage.2_1/ && grep -r XftLockFace .
> (...)
> ./Xft/xftfreetype.c:XftLockFace (XftFont *public)
> (...)
> 
> 
>   I think, with all of this, that is not a -current relative problem.
>   But I can be wrong.

Could be a freetype2 problem.  What version of Xft do you have
installed?  Can you recompile Xft with debugging symbols, then re-run
this test, and send me the output?  Thanks.

Joe

> 
>   Best regards,
>   - patrick
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
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