Description of problem: I tried to open an fontfile "Vassa Menikhoff.otf", but fontforge crashes immediatly. I have not tested any other fontfiles, but I assume that it will give the same result. Opening the file from konquerer, so clickung on the file in the GUI (KDE). Expected that it would open the fontfile. Version-Release number of selected component: fontforge-20120731b-13.fc21 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.3.0 backtrace_rating: 4 cmdline: /usr/bin/fontforge '/home/herman/Downloads/Fonts/Vassa Menikhoff deco.otf' crash_function: decompose_screen_name executable: /usr/bin/fontforge kernel: 3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64 runlevel: N 5 type: CCpp uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (5 frames) #0 decompose_screen_name at gxdraw.c:187 #1 _GXDraw_InitFonts at gxdraw.c:279 #2 GXDrawInit at gxdraw.c:986 #3 _GXDraw_CreateDisplay at gxdraw.c:5023 #4 GDrawCreateDisplays at gdraw.c:889
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I just tried to reproduce quickly by downloading font Vassa_Menikhoff_deco.ttf and opening it in fontforge. I can open the font file without problem. Even new fontforge in f22 also open this font file. I see in log that showed Calibri font information. Do you have that Calibri Microsoft font installed on your system? If yes if you will remove it from system and try to open this font, will it work for you?
Yes, I do have all Microsoft-fonts installed on my system, as well as a lot of other fonts, due to the fact that I work for others who are bound to MS, and due to the fact that I work in Church-Slavonic (old Russian/Slavonic scripts) in Latex. In Fedora 20 I had no need to look into fonts, in 19 I worked in fonts to see how I could make changes into a font, but had to discontinue that. I have removed all mstcore-fonts from my system, but the problem is somehow more complex; because I can not start fontforge manually, that is, from the start-menu without any font. The same behavior is when I try to open a ttf-file; I see the small icon dancing, with no result (that is an opened fontfile in fontforge). Maybe a problem with the number of fonts installed? I have 1100 fonts installed according to the FontManager (61 personal and 1039 system-wide).
FYI: I run logwatch and I get the following messages: For 2015/01/23: WARNING: Kernel Errors Present traps: fontforge[26643] trap divide error ip:3c80687637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) traps: fontforge[26716] trap divide error ip:3c80687637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) traps: fontforge[2761] trap divide error ip:7f779b195637 ...: 2 Time(s) For 2015/01/24: WARNING: Kernel Errors Present traps: fontforge[30577] trap divide error ip:3944487637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) traps: fontforge[31731] trap divide error ip:3944487637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) traps: fontforge[32188] trap divide error ip:3944487637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) traps: fontforge[32247] trap divide error ip:3944487637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) traps: fontforge[32277] trap divide error ip:3944487637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) traps: fontforge[32329] trap divide error ip:3944487637 sp ...: 2 Time(s) ABRT report: # abrt-cli list --since 1422100467 id f50f73e66ff0a69e236ad20e6f50bcc2d300fa75 reason: fontforge killed by SIGFPE time: Sat 24 Jan 2015 01:22:41 PM CET cmdline: /usr/bin/fontforge '/home/herman/Downloads/Fonts/Vassa Menikhoff deco.otf' package: fontforge-20120731b-13.fc21 uid: 1000 (herman) count: 3 Directory: /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2015-01-24-13:22:41-32188
This error occurs in version 20141230-1.fc21 too. Upgrade-date: 2015/02/08
Tested in FC22. Program starts as expected after the upgrade from FC21.