X Crasher in todays rawhide

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Tue Jun 26 16:30:38 UTC 2007


Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I pushed the new core X fonts packages yesterday and they appear in
> todays rawhide.  They now use the catalogue font path mechanism, where
> the package adds a symlink to the font dir in /etc/X11/fontpath.d and
> the X server automatically picks up the new fonts.  The symlinks name
> can contain attributes such as :unscaled to prevent scaling bitmap fonts
> or :pri=10 to control the search order.
> 
> However, there's a bug in the libXfont package in rawhide, that crashes
> when comparing symlinks with no attributes.  I'd suggest either skipping
> the rawhide upgrade today, avoiding xorg-x11-fonts-*, or do the upgrade
> and the pull the new libXfont builds manually:
> 
> 	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=9752
> 
> Kristian
> 
> 
Thanks for the link! The new lib fixes it.
Richard




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