From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030508 Description of problem: When a font fontconfig doesn't like - for whatever reasons! - is on its search path, then all graphical utilities using fontconfig - predominantly KDE and GNOME - simply stop working with a message stating that probably fontconfig is not configured correctly! This has as a consequence that the whole! X11 graphics subsystem stops working at the next restart! It cost me days of annoyment and work to locate this bug and the font file that caused it, but I still don't know what should be wrong with that file - nautilus shows it - when NOT on the fontconfig path! - as ok? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontconfig-2.1-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.put a WRONG ttf file in one of the fontconfig search directories 2.fc-cache -f -v 3.nautilus Actual Results: none of the fontconfig using utilities works anymore X server cant't be started at the next occasion Additional info:
We've had several reports of this, but we've never been able to identify a font with which I can reproduce this problem. What sort of "font fontconfig doesn't like" do you have? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87992 ***
Oldengl.ttf
shall i send it to you? how? attached here?
Depends on the license. If it's a proprietary font, please dont' attach it. You can mail it to me and I'll delete it when I'm done debugging the problem. As important as the font is having the exact sequence of operations that will take a functioning system with only the default fonts and by adding this font make it stop functioning.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.