Bug 506373

Description of problem: After Fontforge is opened, a menu is displayed that prompts you to choose a font to edit or create a new font. After selecting one of these, the program crashes. When run from the command line, the following text is shown:

Copyright (c) 2000-2009 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 14:20 GMT 24-Feb-2009.
 Library based on sources from 14:18 GMT 24-Feb-2009.
Failed to create a fontset for the input method
-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-3,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-4,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5,-misc-ar pl ukai tw-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-7,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-10,-misc-ar pl uming tw-light-r-normal--16-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-13,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-uni,-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
Help! Server claimed font
	-misc-ar pl ukai tw-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
 existed in the font list, but when I asked for it there was nothing.
 I may crash soon.
Segmentation fault

Is there any way to fix this?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I have tried both the most recent version from the Fontforge website (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net), fontforge-20090408 and the version in the repositories, fontforge-20090224.


How reproducible: It happens every time, no matter what choice you make at the prompt.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "fontforge" into the command line
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Actual results: Fontforge encountered a "Segmentation error."


Expected results: Fontforge should have opened a font or created a new one.


Additional info: