When selecting the font courier (elot) there seems to be a major problem. Under GNOME, gfontsel starts using lots of CPU and memory and then crashes. In KDE, it's the same, but it doesn't crash ... the font size starts to flicker, 100% of the CPU are used and the app consumes all of the memory until the system crashes.
Where does this font come from?
That's the fonts-ISO8859-7 package.
I *think* it's a bug in the font.
Wow, that's ugly. I'm reassigning this, as I just made it happen with the 1.0-2 package.
fonts-ISO8859-* packages are not part of XFree86. Can you provide more details, and perhaps a screenshot of the ugliness? This should be reassigned to the proper font package that is messing up. I own the fonts-ISO8859-2 package I believe, but someone else owns the others.
Mike, I'm not sure how to provide a screenshot that shows excessive memory usage ... ;) (Well, my first statement "the font size starts to flicker" isn't really precise ... it should read "the content of the field labeled starts to flicker"). If it's not a XFree problem it should probably be reassigned to fonts-ISO8859-7. Reassigning.
Component name changed, but bug assignment did not. Reassigning...
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