189948 - [xft] Mozilla crashes at news.zdnet.de

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180309

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Boris Folgmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.2; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final) Gecko/20021207
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.2; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final) Gecko/20021207

Mozilla crashes when it tries to display this page. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a link pointing to this URL in an email.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla crashes/quits. Have to restart it.


Expected Results:  
View the page.


May be it's related to the gcc problem that's responsible for the malfunctioning
Java-Plugin in mozilla 1.2.1.

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

WFM Mozilla 1.3 alpha build 2003012008, Windows 98. Reporter, does it crash with
a recent nightly build?

Comment 2

[Patrick Xia]

WFM 2002121217 [yes, it's old], Linux.

Reporter: Try a clean profile by starting mozilla with mozilla -ProfileManager,
create a profile, and start using that.

Comment 3

[Francesco De Francesco]

wfm 20021130, winXP

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, current trunk CVS, Linux

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

Maybe it's a Multizilla issue. Reporter, if you remove Multizilla, does it still
crash?

Changing summary to something more specific.

Comment 6

[Boris Folgmann]

Same problem using a new user. Same problem with latest MultiZilla. How can I
remove it for a test? Same problem with http://www.spreadshirt.de

Comment 7

[Andrew Hagen]

Just uninstall the whole thing. 

Please download and install the latest nightly build of Mozilla. Alternatively,
wait for Mozilla 1.3 beta, which is due out soon.

Comment 8

[Jon]

Just downloaded mozilla-1.3b for linux, specifically, I am using the
mozilla-1.3b-0_xft.i386.rpm on RedHat 8.0.  Still crashes at given URL every
time, also crashes at www.zdnet.com.

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

Xft is Blizzard. Reassign.

Comment 10

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Worksforme.  Maybe you have a .fon file in your font path?  What happens if you
remove the flash plugin?

Comment 11

[Matthew Mastracci]

I get the same crash (zdnet/news.com/etc.).  What should I do to debug this?    Using: Mozilla 1.3b Build ID 2003021123  Crashes on both the gtk2 and xft builds  No flash plugin    Fonts in ~/.fonts:  [matthew@localhost .fonts]$ ls  app850.fon    coure.fon     impact.ttf   smalle.fon    trebuc.ttf  arialbd.ttf   courf.fon     l_10646.ttf  sserife.fon   verdanab.ttf  arialbi.ttf   couri.ttf     lucon.ttf    sseriff.fon   verdanai.ttf  ariali.ttf    cour.ttf      marlett.ttf  symbole.fon   verdana.ttf  arial.ttf     desktop.ini   micross.ttf  symbol.ttf    verdanaz.ttf  ariblk.ttf    dosapp.fon    modern.fon   tahomabd.ttf  vga850.fon  cga40850.fon  ega40850.fon  palabi.ttf   tahoma.ttf    vgafix.fon  cga40woa.fon  ega40woa.fon  palab.ttf    timesbd.ttf   vgaoem.fon  cga80850.fon  ega80850.fon  palai.ttf    timesbi.ttf   vgasys.fon  cga80woa.fon  ega80woa.fon  pala.ttf     timesi.ttf    webdings.ttf  comicbd.ttf   georgiab.ttf  roman.fon    times.ttf     wingding.ttf  comic.ttf     georgiai.ttf  script.fon   trebucbd.ttf  courbd.ttf    georgia.ttf   serife.fon   trebucbi.ttf  courbi.ttf    georgiaz.ttf  seriff.fon   trebucit.ttf    Fonts in   

Comment 12

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

And if you remove the .fon files?

Comment 13

[Boris Folgmann]

I don't have a ~/.fonts directory, but mozilla crashes.
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf of fontconfig-2.0-3 is unchanged (Red Hat 8.0)

Comment 14

[Boris Folgmann]

Andrew, I tried it with the current version from CVS and it still exits without
any error message. I don't get any core file, too. How can I get some
information about the problem's origin? Any special build options?

Comment 15

[R.K.Aa.]

well another xft crash at a zdnet site was bug 199027 ,resolved as dup of bug 180309

Boris Folgmann:
Do you have Microsoft .fon fonts anywhere in your font directories? (It may not
be in in your homedir aka ~fonts) If you find any: does moving them out of the
way  prevent the crash ?

try this to search for them:

locate .fon |grep fon$

Comment 16

[Boris Folgmann]

Only moving the .fon files was not enough. I also had to delete the file
.fonts.cache-1 in my home directory, may be because of dangling references to
the microsoft fonts I removed. It seems that this file is regenerated when I
start a gtk2 application, including mozilla. Now it works! I suppose that the
fontconfig patch mentioned in bug 180309 is the only possibility to get the ms
fonts back?

Comment 17

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Yeah, unfortunately.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180309 ***