This might be an Xft bug Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208288800 (LWP 18329)] 0x00964926 in _XftSetFace () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (gdb) bt #0 0x00964926 in _XftSetFace () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #1 0x009650e9 in XftFontCopy () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #2 0x0096529b in XftFontManageMemory () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #3 0x00965341 in XftFontClose () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 #4 0x0804ba8e in ?? () #5 0x004dcdd6 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x0804a201 in ?? ()
Upstream in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301538 contains a pointer to an Xft patch
The actual Xft bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1951
This one is the Xorg bug report I'm tracking, to get this into 6.8.3: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1958
Approved for rawhide and added to xorg-x11-6.8.2-28.