XFT enabled Mozilla/Firebird spontaneous exits/crashes after upgrading to FC1 from RH8

[Bob Arendt]

Try uninstalling/reinstalling ttfonts-ja.  See:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109537
-Bob Arendt

Steve Lacy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just performed a "no brains" upgrade from RH8.0 to FC1, and am finding 
> that XFT-enabled Mozilla and Firebird both spontaneously exit when 
> browsing several websites.  It happens on all versions of Mozilla with 
> XFT (1.4.1, 1.5, 1.6a) and Firebird 0.7.   Non-XFT versions of the same 
> products can browse with no problems.
> 
> In addition, I was running an XFT enabled Mozilla 1.5 under RH 8.0 
> before the upgrade with no problems.
> 
> I suspect that there is some combination of:
> - A bug in XFT
> - A bug in Mozilla
> - Something wrong with my local user font configuration (~/.fonts and 
> /usr/share/fonts -- but any "problem" with these that causes such a 
> crash is really just a problem with XFT in my opinion)   If I move away 
> ~/.fonts and ~/.phoenix, I still have the problem.
> 
> Has anyone experienced the same problems, and is there an easy solution?
> Steve
> 
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