Put ZapfDingbats.ttf into ~/.fonts, then: cd ~/.fonts mkfontscale mkfontdir xset fp+ ${HOME}/.fonts xlsfonts | grep dingbats You should see: -misc-zapf dingbats-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 Now try running: xfd -fn "-misc-zapf dingbats-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1" You'll get: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Value in failed request: 0x80000b Serial number of failed request: 21 Current serial number in output stream: 22 Please contact me offline for ZapfDingbats.ttf since I think there are licensing issues preventing me from adding it as an attachment
The (*scalable->renderer->OpenScalable) call is returning BadFontFormat. Enabling DEBUG_TRUETYPE in ft.h printed out: Open Scalable /System/Library/Fonts/ZapfDingbats.ttf, XLFD=-misc-zapf dingbats-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 Closing face: /System/Library/Fonts/ZapfDingbats.ttf Error during load: 88 So it's happening inside FreeTypeLoadXFont which in turn got it from FreeTypeLoadFont which in turn got it from FTPickMapping. gdb is being a PITA and not finding debug symbols, so I can't step through, but it looks like something in FTPickMapping doesn't agree with the font.
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.
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