Package: sawfish
Severity: blocker
Version: sawfish2-2.0.pre1.0.200204252035-0.snap.ximian.1
Synopsis: Sawfish dies on load when lots of fonts are on the system
Bugzilla-Product: sawfish
Bugzilla-Component: general

Description:
Description of Problem:
So there I go, loading up the latest rpms from RedCarpet. I logout, then
login and it kills X. Takes it down with a sig11. After much fussing
around, nada. So I try it on my home machine, it works. 

After much futzing around (I can get it all to work if I load things
manually), I play a hunch. I shut down my ttf font server. It works.
Near as I can tell, it appears to be sawfish, but I do not have a way to
narrow it down properly. I do know the only difference in the two
machines is the font count. The machine it fails on is a dual 866 w/1GB
RAM, so I doubt it is system resources. Besides, it worked just fine on
1.4 GNOME/Sawfish

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install ~500 fonts. (including making sure they are in the font path
for the Xserver!)
2. Load GDM and try to log in  
-=OR=-
3. log into console, and run startx

Actual Results:
Sawfish takes a loooong time to laod, and then it takes down the
Xserver.

Expected Results:
X should stay up.

How often does this happen?
Every time.

Additional Information:
Enlightnement under the same setup works fine. That is why I am fairly
certain it is sawfish. Further, it appears to only be a problem during
start up. If I manually add the font path containing the fonts after
loading, it seems to work just fine. The additional fonts are being
served by xfstt.


-- 
Bill Anderson                anderson@hp.com
Hewlett Packard              396-6348
NSAS




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-05-01 12:42 -------

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