X Crasher in todays rawhide

[Kristian Kristensen]

Hi,

I pushed the new core X fonts packages yesterday and they appear in
todays rawhide.  They now use the catalogue font path mechanism, where
the package adds a symlink to the font dir in /etc/X11/fontpath.d and
the X server automatically picks up the new fonts.  The symlinks name
can contain attributes such as :unscaled to prevent scaling bitmap fonts
or :pri=10 to control the search order.

However, there's a bug in the libXfont package in rawhide, that crashes
when comparing symlinks with no attributes.  I'd suggest either skipping
the rawhide upgrade today, avoiding xorg-x11-fonts-*, or do the upgrade
and the pull the new libXfont builds manually:

	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=9752

Kristian

[Richard Hally]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I pushed the new core X fonts packages yesterday and they appear in
>  todays rawhide.  They now use the catalogue font path mechanism, where
>  the package adds a symlink to the font dir in /etc/X11/fontpath.d and
>  the X server automatically picks up the new fonts.  The symlinks name
>  can contain attributes such as :unscaled to prevent scaling bitmap fonts
>  or :pri=10 to control the search order.
>  
>  However, there's a bug in the libXfont package in rawhide, that crashes
>  when comparing symlinks with no attributes.  I'd suggest either skipping
>  the rawhide upgrade today, avoiding xorg-x11-fonts-*, or do the upgrade
>  and the pull the new libXfont builds manually:
>  
>  	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=9752
>  
>  Kristian
>  
>   
Thanks for the link! The new lib fixes it.
Richard

[Patrice Dumas]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>  Hi,
>  I pushed the new core X fonts packages yesterday and they appear in
>  todays rawhide.  They now use the catalogue font path mechanism, where
>  the package adds a symlink to the font dir in /etc/X11/fontpath.d and
>  the X server automatically picks up the new fonts.  The symlinks name
>  can contain attributes such as :unscaled to prevent scaling bitmap fonts
>  or :pri=10 to control the search order.
>  However, there's a bug in the libXfont package in rawhide, that crashes
>  when comparing symlinks with no attributes.  I'd suggest either skipping
>  the rawhide upgrade today, avoiding xorg-x11-fonts-*, or do the upgrade
>  and the pull the new libXfont builds manually:
>  	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=9752
>  Kristian 
The fonts in fluxbox window titles have changed.

And in gv, or xpdf (gv is an Xaw app, xpdf is lesstif based), I get:
 Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct

Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

I don't recall having those error messages before the libXfont update.
Is it a bug or a normal side-effect?

--
Pat

[Kristian Kristensen]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 19:46 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>  Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > I pushed the new core X fonts packages yesterday and they appear in
>  > todays rawhide.  They now use the catalogue font path mechanism, where
>  > the package adds a symlink to the font dir in /etc/X11/fontpath.d and
>  > the X server automatically picks up the new fonts.  The symlinks name
>  > can contain attributes such as :unscaled to prevent scaling bitmap fonts
>  > or :pri=10 to control the search order.
>  > However, there's a bug in the libXfont package in rawhide, that crashes
>  > when comparing symlinks with no attributes.  I'd suggest either skipping
>  > the rawhide upgrade today, avoiding xorg-x11-fonts-*, or do the upgrade
>  > and the pull the new libXfont builds manually:
>  > 	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=9752
>  > Kristian
>  
>  The fonts in fluxbox window titles have changed.
>  
>  And in gv, or xpdf (gv is an Xaw app, xpdf is lesstif based), I get:
>   Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>  
>  Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
>  
>  I don't recall having those error messages before the libXfont update.
>  Is it a bug or a normal side-effect? 
That's a problem... could you open a bug, assign to me, attach output
from xset q, ls -l /etc/X11/fontpath.d, rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-fonts
and xlsfonts?

thanks,
Kristian