From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: mozilla crashes when loading a page which contains Japanese fonts or when trying to view an e-mail message with Japanese fonts Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.6-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start mozilla (with or without lang=ja_JP) 2. Go to a page like http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/euc/dict 3. Actual Results: Crash Expected Results: View page Additional info: I'm aware of http://www.linuxcompatible.org/print23546.html but the problem appears to exist in Fedora Core 2. I don't know if it's an effect of my system having been upgraded from RH9 rather than being a fresh install.
It is an installer bug. After upgrade, the installer should do something equivalent to # locate fonts.cache | xargs rm -f Otherwise, applications may try to use the fonts removed during upgrade, which are still in the fonts cache. You can do it by hand after upgrade.
This fixes the problem for me.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Closing, based on the Legacy comments and since changes in fontconfig's caching should fix this problem in FC5 since at least 2.3.93-2