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Bug 331833 - Pango crashes on DejaVu Sans and specific glyphs
Pango crashes on DejaVu Sans and specific glyphs
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-20 00:38 UTC by Simos Xenitellis
Modified: 2006-04-24 22:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Simos Xenitellis 2006-02-20 00:38:22 UTC 
I reported this bug in Malone (see: https://launchpad.net/products/pango/+bug/31910) and specified that it is an upstream bug in Pango. 

I have no idea how it propagates here and I did not see it yet in the list of unconfirmed bugs, so I am adding this report.

The stack trace is available on Malone (taken from Ubuntu Dapper by Kostas Papadimas).
Comment 1 Denis Jacquerye 2006-02-20 09:38:23 UTC 
I am unable to reproduce the bug when using:
* pango 1.11.5
* gedit 2.13.91
* dejavu fonts 2.3

the file http://librarian.launchpad.net/1576665/testtext.txt does not cause gedit to crash with my setup (Ubuntu Dapper).
Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-02-20 09:39:53 UTC 
From the backtraces in the Ubuntu bug, seems more like a cairo/freetype bug.
Comment 3 Kostas Papadimas 2006-02-20 12:20:23 UTC 
 Crash is reproducible with Dejavu fonts 2.1 and pango 1.11.5 . An upgrade to Dejavu Sans 2.3 seems to solve the problem
Comment 4 Simos Xenitellis 2006-04-24 22:07:05 UTC 
As more main distros have upgraded to DejaVu 2.3 or newer, 
I am inclined to close this bug report as NOTGNOME.

Spefically,
Debian: 2.4.1 (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-dejavu)
Dapper: 2.4.1 (2.5.0 package coming by doko) (http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/ubuntu/pool/main/t/ttf-dejavu/)
Fedora Core 5: (not there but Extras have 2.5.0)
OpenSuSE 10.1 rc2: ??? (probably something newer)

To sum up, there have been two positive reports that DejaVu 2.1 crashes GNOME applications when trying to display two speficic Greek characters. This issue can appear with Ubuntu Breeze (5.10), however you need to configure your system to use DejaVu for Greek (not default).

Thank you all for your feedback.
Comment 5 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-04-24 22:22:50 UTC 
A crash is a bug in the rendering subsystem no matter whether the font is bogus or not.  So don't close for that reason next time.  I have worked hard making sure pango doesn't crash no matter what fonts it finds.