Re: [ft] Crashing libfreetype.so.6.11.2

[suzuki toshiya]

Could you tell me detailed info about the package revision?
I will be able to make a deb package including debuggable
shared library.

Generally speaking, even if there is a bad font in the system
which can make freetype library crashed, as far as it is not
loaded by the application, the application would not be crashed.
If the trouble is caused by the font (not by the freetype itself),
I guess you misconfigured something for your desktop environment
to refer a problematic font and it causes many crashes. Therefore,
making yet another account and trying to login with it would be
a considerable option to bypass the suspicious configuration.

Anyway "crashing" is not informative at all. You received SEGV
message? Or the applications unexpectedly abort? Any other warning
message?

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On 2014年12月12日 22:58, akovia wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to find some info on how to troubleshoot this. I have many
> programs crashing on my system and they all have libfreetype.so.6.11.2
> in common. I work with a lot of fonts and have a gut feeling it's a bad
> font somewhere, but I'm not sure how to track it down. I have
> reinstalled all packages related to freetype that I could find
> (fontconfig, pango, etc..), but nothing seems to work. When trying to
> purge it, it wants to remove half of my system due to dependencies so I
> never followed through with that. Searches on the net and mailing list
> archives haven't turned up anything that has been able to help.
> My system is close to unusable and am trying to avoid a completely new
> install. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
> --
> akovia
> xubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
>
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