Bug 101890

Summary:	Unable to start xorg-server after upgrade to harfbuzz 1.4.7
Product:	HarfBuzz	Reporter:	ariane
Component:	src	Assignee:	Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	medium	CC:	ariane, freedesktop
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description ariane 2017-07-24 06:24:50 UTC

OS: Archlinux
Xorg-Server: 1.19.3-2
Harfbuzz: 1.4.7-1

It works fine with harfbuzz 1.4.6-1

/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates
/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: Unable to run X server

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2017-07-26 01:01:38 UTC

(In reply to ariane from comment #0)
> OS: Archlinux
> Xorg-Server: 1.19.3-2
> Harfbuzz: 1.4.7-1
> 
> It works fine with harfbuzz 1.4.6-1
> 
> /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates
> /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: Unable to run X server

You are trying to run a HarfBuzz library compiled with a version of FreeType that has FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates, but your runtime FreeType library is older and does not have that symbol.  On Fedora, this used to happen if you had freetype-freeworld installed.  On other systems, perhaps you have the "infinality" FreeType installed.  At any rate, a misconfigured system, not an upstream bug.

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