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[John Ellson]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> John Ellson <ellson at research.att.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Can you get any more clues about where it is dying by running it under
>> strace with:
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5 strace
>> /usr/lib64/firefox-1.5/firefox-bin
>>     
>
> I'd sort of given up on trying to strace firefox problems - even if you
> narrow things, its a real needle-in-the-haystack task.  But it points a
> pretty clear finger this time:
>
> open("/usr/share/fonts/ja/sazanami-gothic.ttf", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(2, "\nPango-ERROR **: file basic-fc.c"..., 110
>
> I'd missed the Pango gripe before as well:
>
> 	Pango-ERROR **: file basic-fc.c: 
> 	line 347 (basic_engine_shape): assertion failed: (face != NULL)
>
> It looks like something similar to what David just reported.  Now, don't
> ask *why* it wants that particular font for news.google.com...
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>
> Jonathan Corbet
> Executive editor, LWN.net
> corbet at lwn.net
>
>   
See if rebuilding the fonconfig caches (/usr/bin/fc-cache) will clear 
the problem.

John