GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 145164
crash when opening Preferences dialog
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Menu Edit > Preferences Galeon crashes after a few seconds. 100% reproducable, I can't open the settings dialog. I have reported this bug to the Debian maintainer since it's possible it's not a Galeon-source bug; so far no reaction. If time permits, it might help if someone with more knowledge of Galeon sees where it actually blows up (stacktrace attached).
Created attachment 29101 [details] stacktrace Pango version in Debian unstable seems to be 1.4.0.
This does look like a pango crash, could you please install the libpango1.0-dbg, libglib2.0-dbg and libgtk2.0-dbg packages, and then run obtain a backtrace as follows: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug:/usr/lib/mozilla gdb /usr/lib/galeon-bin <gdb output> (gdb) run <make it crash> (gdb) thread apply all bt and then paste the backtrace here.
Created attachment 29150 [details] Galeon + Pango backtrace Backtrace of Preferences dialog crash, might contain some non-ASCII characters.
Nice backtrace, thanks. This looks like you have a font installed with a funny name, It starts "Uber", and ends "lme", do you have a font mathcing this name installed ? And if so, what is its real name, and where did you get it from ?
Doh. It's a freeware font called Uberhölme (that's an 'o' with an umlaut, if it doesn't show), and it probably comes from here: http://www.dafont.com/en/voir.php?libelle=Uberh%F6lme It is not the first time I've gotten a crash of for instance, the Gimp, with certain 'freeware' fonts - which I then removed - but this font has never given any problem. It has been installed for about a year already, the ctime timestamp is Jul 11 2003. It's quite strange a Galeon preferences dialog crashes on a font that's not in use in the GUI. So, I suppose we should re-assign this bug to pango (freetype/fontconfig)?
Thanks for that. If I install this font, I get a crash as well. Although recompiling pango from scratch stops the crash. Something very odd is going on here, probably in pango.
Bingo, this has been fixed in pango CVS, its bug 129741 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129741 ***
*** Bug 149145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***