Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57983
Reproducible X crash possibly associated with fonts
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:52 EDT
Description of Problem: X crashes when I select control-center -> mouse -> help -> help on mouse properties. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.1.0-3 XFree86-libs-4.1.0-3 How Reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgraded from beta (oops) to RH 7.2. Did not (yet) apply updates 2. Messed around with character maps to make it euro-friendly and to use ISO8859-15.Given the ugliness of the gtk font and my ability to view euro signs, concluded it worked. Will get Alan (who did the messing) to explain what he changed where. 3. I have gnome-help-browser as my ghelp "url browser" (in case this is relevant) 4.Gnome -> control-center -> peripherals:mouse -> help -> help on mouse properties. Actual Results: I do not have nautilus running (although it's installed) and I have gnome-help-browser as the URL. It showed up, then the screen went black and I was bounced back to the console and X crash output.A switchbox for keyboard,video and mouse and gdb came in handy here: Expected Results: gnome-help-browser to start up and display relevant information. Additional Information: I have cc'd Alan so that he can add any exciting technical details about the character maps and fonts. I'm afraid I'm not quite sure on that. All the hardware details are in the gdb backtrace.
Created attachment 41771 [details] backtrace of crash, with hardware info in it (made with 'script')
Created attachment 41772 [details] xlsfonts output
There are various issues known when upgrading from beta to official release, some of which are font related. It is possible you've ran into one of them. In particular, some of the problems were due to broken rpm scripts (%post, %postun, etc), so on upgrade to good packages, the old broken scripts run and things break. If you can't do a fresh 7.2 install without much turmoil, I recommend trying to wipe out all XFree86 packages, and reinstall it. I'll have a look at your logfile in a bit and get back to you. Take care.
Telsa - just updating and closing bug report as discussed on IRC XFree86 Version 4.1.0 (Unofficial Build: 4.1.0-3) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.9-ac8 i686 [ELF] Build Host: oggit.swansea.linux.org.uk If you experience similar problems with the released XFree86, please reopen, and/or snag me on IRC. ;o)