[Bug 541888] New: Fontforge crashes when loading font

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Summary: Fontforge crashes when loading font

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541888

           Summary: Fontforge crashes when loading font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 12
          Platform: x86_64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: urgent
          Priority: low
         Component: fontforge
        AssignedTo: kevin(a)tummy.com
        ReportedBy: tobias(a)ringis.se
         QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: roozbeh(a)gmail.com, kevin(a)tummy.com,
                    fedora-fonts-bugs-list(a)redhat.com
    Classification: Fedora


Description of problem:

It seems to crash no matter which font I try to open.  New works.

>  fontforge /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf 
Copyright
(c) 2000-2009 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 22:35 GMT 22-Jun-2009.
 Library based on sources from 22:35 GMT 22-Jun-2009.
Failed to create a fontset for the input method
-urw-urw gothic l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-3,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-4,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-10,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-uni,-arphic-ar pl uming
cn-light-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0,-arphic-ar pl uming
tw-light-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-big5-0,-urw-urw gothic
l-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
Help! Server claimed font
 -arphic-ar pl uming tw-light-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
 existed in the font list, but when I asked for it there was nothing.
 I may crash soon.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

fontforge-20090622-2.fc12.x86_64


How reproducible:

Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install fontforge
2. fontforge /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf

Actual results:

Crash, boom, bang.  (See above)

Expected results:

Less crash, boom and bang.

Additional info:

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Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)tummy.com&gt; changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)tummy.com&gt;  2009-11-27 11:36:59 EDT ---
This looks like an issue I have seen a number of times before: Your font caches
were not updated when you uninstalled/installed/upgraded fonts. So, fontforge
asks what fonts are available, the X server lies to it and when it tries to use
of the ones thats not really there it blows up. ;( 

Try re-running 'fc-cache' against all the directories under
/usr/share/X11/fonts/ and see if that fixes it. 
Or check all the font cache files there for this font it's looking for and
regenerate that one. 

See bug 450709 for more info.

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--- Comment #2 from Tobias Ringstrom <tobias(a)ringis.se&gt;  2009-12-01 08:10:43 EDT
---
There are no fonts in /usr/share/X11/fonts/.  Did you mean /usr/share/fonts/?

I tried removing all files in ~/.fontconfig, and I also ran 'fc-cache
/usr/share/fonts/*', but fontforge still crashed.

As you can see in the error above, fontforge complains about the font
-arphic-ar-something.  That font is in
cjkuni-uming-fonts-0.2.20080216.1-29.fc12.noarch.  Removing that RPM makes
fontforge work.

While it's possible that there's a problem with the cjkuni-uming-fonts RPM,
Fontforge should still not crash.

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--- Comment #3 from Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)tummy.com&gt;  2009-12-06 13:47:02 EDT ---
Strange. So I have this font installed here, and fontforge works fine. 

What do you see in: 

xlsfonts | grep "arphic-ar" | grep 13

I've talked with upstream about this before, and they won't fix it, as they say
the X server should never lie to them and tell them that a font can be used
when it cannot. :( 

What is your locale set to?

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--- Comment #4 from Tobias Ringstrom <tobias(a)ringis.se&gt;  2009-12-07 06:37:25 EDT
---
Even stranger.

I reinstalled cjkuni-uming-fonts-0.2.20080216.1-29.fc12.noarch.rpm, and
fontforge works fine. The last time I tried, I could remove the package and
fontforge would work, and then install it again and fontforge would crash.  I
tried it a couple of times. I have updated other packages since then, and also
rebooted once.  I guess it's fixed?

In case it still matters, I get nothing from "xlsfonts | grep "arphic-ar"
|
grep 13", and my locale is en_US.utf8.

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--- Comment #5 from Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)tummy.com&gt;  2009-12-09 17:56:57 EDT ---
Strange. I didn't do anything at all... ;( 

I guess we close this as a mystery?

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--- Comment #6 from Praveen Arimbrathodiyil <parimbra(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-05-14
03:20:34 EDT ---
It works when cjkuni-ukai-fonts is installed. see #592178

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--- Comment #7 from Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-06-21 03:34:38 EDT ---
It might also have been a cjkuni packaging issue that got fixed perhaps?

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