155035 - mozilla crashes on startup after loading ttf (truetype/freetype, font)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155175

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Ray Tsang]

Mozilla worked wonderfully until I installed a few hundred TrueType fonts.  
There are currently ~540 ttf files in the font dir. Mozilla crashed after  
loading about half of them.

Comment 1

[Ray Tsang]

Attachment: Mozilla loading fonts in truetype/ dir

Mozilla terminated after DUET____.ttf, with no error description.

Comment 2

[Ray Tsang]

Attachment: My /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ content

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

a talkback incident ID or a stack trace would be nice here... ;)

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mail from Ray:

  How can i obtain that info? it does not appear that talkback is loaded at
  the point that it terminates :/

ccing bstell, who may have an idea of how to approach this...

Comment 5

[kill this account]

Could you set the environment variable NS_FONT_DEBUG=FFF, capture moz's 
output when starting, and attach it to this bug?

Thanks

Comment 6

[Ray Tsang]

Attachment: Mozilla output with NS_FONT_DEBUG=FFF

This is done following bstell's instruction.

Comment 7

[kill this account]

This looks similar to bug 155175.  Can someone apply that patch and see if it
helps (or retest this after that patch is in)?

Comment 8

[Ray Tsang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155175 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155175 ***

Comment 9

[Ray Tsang]

The patch for bug 155175 worked for me.  Thank you. 
 
However, the font loading process appears to be somewhat time consuming, for 
it seems to happen for every page load?  Regardless, I will solve that problem 
by moving the fonts away from mozilla for now. :p 

Comment 10

[kill this account]

> the font loading process appears to be somewhat time consuming, for 
> it seems to happen for every page load?

It this correct? If so it is a serious problem and a bug should definitely be
opened.

Comment 11

[Ray Tsang]

my bad. the font reloading problem seems to be caused by galeon.  mozilla by
itself is behaving efficiently.  thank you.