Description of problem: fontforge crashes by missing -ibm-courier-medium-.. fonts on F8->F9 system. It has the following error messages right after the splash screen has flashed on the desktop: $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 fontforge Copyright (c) 2000-2008 by George Williams. Executable based on sources from 22:48 GMT 9-Mar-2008. Library based on sources from 22:48 GMT 9-Mar-2008. Help! Server claimed font -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--12-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 existed in the font list, but when I asked for it there was nothing. I may crash soon. セグメンテーション違反です Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontforge-20080309-1.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installed fontforge rpm on F8->F9 system. 2. Start gnome-terminal by Alt-F2 > 'gnome-terminal'. 3. Input fontforge. 4. Check results. Actual results: fontforge started. Expected results: fontforge crashed with error messages. Additional info: N/A.
Removal of entries in /usr/share/X11/Type1/fonts.dir does resolve the problem: cour.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 cour.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 cour.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 cour.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 courb.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 courb.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 courb.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 courb.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 courbi.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 courbi.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 courbi.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 courbi.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 couri.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 couri.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 couri.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 couri.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 450709 ***