Problems with Mozilla Crashing

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Apr 29 16:45:29 UTC 2004


Robin Laing wrote:
> John Nichel wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I've searched the archives and found quite a few people are having 
>> problems with Mozilla and Fedora 1.  I tried all the suggestions that 
>> I found: installed M$'s TTF fonts, uninstalled/reinstalled the 
>> ttfonts-ja package, created a new profile from scratch, etc. and still 
>> no go.  I've tried these steps both with the RPM version (1.4) and the 
>> latest download from Mozilla (1.6), but Mozilla will still just 'exit' 
>> with no warning, and no error messages.  Does anyone have any other 
>> suggestions?  TIA
>>
> 
> If it is site dependent, check for a problem with fonts.
> 
> I had this problem when accessing certain sites and found that there was 
> a font problem and makeing a link fixed all my crashes.
> 
> There was no zysong.ttf font on my system and creating a link from 
> zysnog.ttf > gbsn001p.ttf stopped 99.9% of my crashes.
> 
> This is in the following directory.
> /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType
> 
> There is a bug report on the RedHat site about this and is where I found 
> it.
> 

Here is a RedHat link to the problem.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04215.html


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