[root@collins ~]# fc-cache -f -v fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 11 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 18 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc": caching, 51 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 348 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 358 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 19 fonts, 3 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/TTF": caching, 39 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/Type1": caching, 35 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/windows": Segmentation fault the /usr/share/fonts/windows directory contains *.fon fonts copied from windows. worked perfectly and cached the fonts without crashing in versions up to and including 2.1.92, didn't try 2.1.93.
Can you run this with FC_DEBUG set to 128 and under gdb so that you can post a stack trace? # export FC_DEBUG=128 # gdb fc-cache ... (gdb) run -f -v ... (gdb) where
/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/windows": Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) where #0 0x00000000 in ?? () #1 0x400568ba in FT_Get_BDF_Property (face=0x8090b50, prop_name=0x400942b3 "get_bdf_property", aproperty=0xbffff6b0) at /usr/src/blfs/x/libs/freetype-2.1.4/src/base/ftbdf.c:88 #2 0x40026d9f in FcFreeTypeQuery (file=0x8072e50 "/usr/share/fonts/windows/85f874.fon", id=0, blanks=0x400942b3, count=0x400942b3) at fcfreetype.c:784 #3 0x40025dbd in FcFileScan (set=0x809b768, dirs=0x8074d18, cache=0x0, blanks=0x8053088, file=0x8072e50 "/usr/share/fonts/windows/85f874.fon", force=1) at fcdir.c:113 #4 0x4002611b in FcDirScan (set=0x809b768, dirs=0x8074d18, cache=0x0, blanks=0x8053088, dir=0x8074090 "/usr/share/fonts/windows", force=1) at fcdir.c:221 #5 0x08048db5 in scanDirs (list=0x80a0170, config=0x804a910, program=0xbffffa97 "/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache", force=1, verbose=1) at fc-cache.c:166 #6 0x08048e1f in scanDirs (list=0x804e328, config=0x804a910, program=0xbffffa97 "/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache", force=1, verbose=1) at fc-cache.c:197 #7 0x0804914c in main (argc=134538024, argv=0xbffff994) at fc-cache.c:278 #8 0x400ea572 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
Good work -- easy to fix with that trace. The bug is in FreeType, but I've placed a workaround in fontconfig. Fetch a new version of src/fcfreetype.c from CVS if you want to give it a try.
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