Description of problem: On Fedora 21, Fluxbox pulls the artwiz-aleczapka-smoothansi-fonts rpm as a dependency. Unfortunately having both this package and gimp installed will crash gimp when selecting fonts in gimp's font tool. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Name : artwiz-aleczapka-smoothansi-fonts Arch : noarch Version : 1.3 Release : 16.fc21 ---- Name : gimp Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 2 Version : 2.8.14 Release : 1.fc21 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install gimp and artwiz-aleczapka-smoothansi-fonts 2. In gimp, attempt to change font in text tool 3. Observe crash Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: From the console when gimp crashes: ~]$ gimp (gimp:5845): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'smoothansi 13' (gimp:5845): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory (gimp:5845): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory (script-fu:5856): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error Segmentation fault (core dumped) ---- Also, I'd opened a bug for gimp before I could narrow the issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195077
I can't reproduce this. The internet seems to think this error is sometimes caused by permission errors in ~/.fonts. Also, please make sure you're not running out of disk space. I'll leave this open for now, but I'd really need a reproducer to troubleshoot it.
Just tried a fresh f21 install via vm and now I cannot reproduce the issue. This may well be an issue with my particular machines. Please feel free to close the issue and I'll reopen if I can recreate it on a fresh setup. Thanks much for having a look.