Bug 490243 - xfig crashes on startup with SIGSEGV
Summary: xfig crashes on startup with SIGSEGV
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xfig
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Stepan Kasal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-14 00:21 UTC by Ian Dall
Modified: 2009-03-14 01:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-03-14 01:14:22 UTC
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Description Ian Dall 2009-03-14 00:21:25 UTC 
Created attachment 335182 [details]
gdb backtrace

Description of problem:
Starting xfig (either xfig-plain or xfig-Xaw3d) causes a segmentation fault.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfig-3.2.5-11.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start xfig
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

$ xfig-plain
Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Segmentation fault

Expected results:
No segmentation fault

Additional info:

gdb backtrace attached
Comment 1 Ian Dall 2009-03-14 01:14:22 UTC 
This turns out to be a mis-configured font server. It is a bit strange, because fslsfonts seemed to show xfs working properly. But reverting to the distributed /etc/X11/fs/config solved the problem.
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