Don't know if this is directly related to firefox. it probably isn't but I don't know to which dependant component its related to. I'm going to start it in firefox and see what happens. Description of problem: If you have Xorg setup, without the font packages, firefox will segfault. I'm pretty sure that this is just a matter of Requiring the font packages, but I'm not sure what component needs to do this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox 3. whatever is on f9 now. How reproducible: If you dont have the xorg font packages it Always seg faults. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Xorg 2. Instal twm 3. Install firefox 4. Install xterm 5. exec firefox inside the xterm and see it segfault Actual results: It segfaults Expected results: firefox starts
Apps shouldn't require fonts... trying xorg?
apps shouldn't segfault either.
I agree. Please install firefox-debuginfo (debuginfo-install is from yum-utils package). debuginfo-install firefox Then run firefox with a parameter -g. That will start firefox running inside of gdb debugger. Then use command run and do whatever you did to make firefox crash. When it happens, you should go back to the gdb and run (gdb) thread apply all backtrace This produces usually many screens of the text. Copy all of them into a text editor and attach the file to the bug as an uncompressed attachment. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
I wonder if it has anything to do with bug badname-fixed-font
Created attachment 310350 [details] error message. before I go uninstalling everything to reproduce this thing I have what I saw in the terminal. If that does not help you I'll do the hole debug info thing to firefox.
The missing font(s) is a DUPLICATE of Bug 257901.
(In reply to comment #6) > The missing font(s) is a DUPLICATE of Bug 257901. Correct, but this is about crashing firefox.
Not sure how this is a firefox bug when the other one plainly says that any app that uses pango will not start if there are no fonts installed. It's a pango problem, or an x problem, or something else's problem. Not firefox.
Also, fixing the summary to describe the problem. The old summary had a suggestion, and that suggestion is NOTABUG or WONTFIX.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Reporter, can you please attach the back-trace of crash? We need to know if the crash occurs in firefox or if the core crashes somewhere in externally linked library (like pango/cairo).
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question (and follow instructions in comment 3)? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
yes, I am aware of this. I'll try to squeeze it (the test) in next month (thing is that I have to reinstall, with no fonts... bla bla bla). Sorry for the dealy. Worst case is that the bug will get closed.
Did the same procedure with f10 and stuff worked. Closing the bug