Created attachment 752372 [details] backtrace Description of problem: Firefox segfaults at startup on ppc64: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00003fffb58152c0 in nsFontMetrics::GetMetrics (this=this@entry=0x3fffa1857420) at /usr/src/debug/xulrunner-21.0/mozilla-release/gfx/src/nsFontMetrics.cpp:129 129 return mFontGroup->GetFontAt(0)->GetMetrics(); Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xulrunner-21.0-5.fc19 firefox-21.0-4.fc19 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch firefox 2. 3. Actual results: Segmentation fault. Backtrace attached
Hm, are you sure you have fonts installed (like X11 and dependencies).
How can I verify that? I'm using firefox under VNC.
Thanks Jan! It looks like I needed a dependency. I had done a minimal f19 install and then installed firefox and VNC. This used to work for me in the past, but apparently it no longer works. Doing a full graphical install makes firefox work much better. Firefox crashed the first time I launched it, but worked fine subsequently. Shouldn't these required fonts (or whatever other deps Firefox needs) be installed as a result of yum install firefox ? Or the minimal install + firefox and VNC is just a non-supported setup?
No, we can't depend on any font - it has to be a part of minimal usable X environment. I'm sure other X apps will crash there too.
OTOH firefox may throw some decent error message instead of the crash...but unfortunately if we fix this one it may crash in cairo as well. We should consider to give a hint to user, for instance from firefox sh launch script or so. BTW. which font files have you installed?
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