Mozilla and Epiphany Die

[Christopher Blizzard]

Clint wrote:

> Thanks for the heads-up on strace. Both sites result in segmentation 
> errors, it seems because of True Type fonts:
>
> open("/usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType/zysong.ttf", O_RDONLY) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>
> and a different font withthe google search for emacs.
>
>
> I couldn't tell that there was a dependable fix at the bugzilla page, 
> and it seems that an attempt to fix it could result in not being able 
> to get logged in via Gnome -- and I definitely don't want to risk that!
>
> If anyone has ideas that I could try, please post! 

Please try the rpms that I posted recently for testing to see if it 
solves this problem.  The rpms that you want are all the Mozilla rpms 
listed here:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/

The bug that you are seeing is exactly the bug that update tries to solve.

--Chris

>
>
> Thanks,
> Clint
>
>
>
> Mike Klinke wrote:
>
>> On Monday 17 November 2003 03:01, Clint wrote:
>>
>>> Since upgrading from RH9 to FC1, Mozilla dies when I try to get
>>> content from some particular sites:
>>>
>>> url: www.google.com
>>> search term: emacs
>>> response from Mozilla: dies
>>> frequency: 100% reproducible
>>>
>>> When I try the same with Epiphany, it crashes, telling me that a
>>> segmentation error has occured.
>>>
>>> and another page: www.hootie.com/forum/
>>> response from Mozilla: dies
>>> frequency: 100% reproducible
>>>
>>> Is anyone else experiencing the same behavior? I don't recall ever
>>> having this experience under RH9, but it was using an earlier version
>>> of Mozilla -- so I do not know if this is due to my upgrading to FC1
>>> or a Mozilla bug.
>>>
>>> Are there command lines that I could type to help diagnose the
>>> problem?
>>>
>>> Clint
>>
>>
>>
>> Clint,
>>
>> Yes, I had the a similar problem and it turned out to be a font 
>> problem described here:
>>
>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109537
>>
>> Do an "strace mozilla" and take a look at the log when it crashes.
>>
>> If you are experiencing the same problem, I resolved it by following 
>> the suggestions in that discussion to remove the font-cache-1 files 
>> and rebuild them again.
>>
>> Regards,  Mike Klinke
>>
>>
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>


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