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Bug 86150 - Inability to even log in if your Xft is broken
Inability to even log in if your Xft is broken
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: Medium feature
Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
: 70351 83871 111471 121069 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-21 16:05 UTC by Jim Gettys
Modified: 2006-02-02 11:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Jim Gettys 2002-06-21 16:05:47 UTC 
If you happen to have a broken Xft (as I did; Keith has since fixed this
bug), Gnome logs you in, but the panel crashes if it cannot find any fonts.

You may get (in your .xsession-errors file, or say, from
gnome-font-properties) complaints that it can't find any fonts.

The panel eventually exists; various other apps have similar behavior.

If no client side fonts can be found, we'd have a much more robust
system that would not fail in a completely obscure way (I end up with
a completely blank screen!) if it would fail back to core fonts.

This problem could occur other other circumstances, like messed up
XftConfig files, I suspect.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-06-26 01:06:36 UTC 
Jim: did we decide that this is a gtk bug?
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2002-06-26 01:34:26 UTC 
It's a Pango RFE. I wouldn't call it a bug.

(Pointing Xft at a particular file turns out to work
less than perfectly so it will take some work.)

There are various other Pango bugs which are sitting
on 1.2 or future milestones with "the only way
to do better is to ship a font with Pango" so its
sort of a dup of that.
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2002-07-26 21:44:06 UTC 
*** Bug 70351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2003-09-03 14:18:47 UTC 
*** Bug 121069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2003-09-03 14:19:56 UTC 
*** Bug 83871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Sven Neumann 2003-11-02 15:25:29 UTC 
*** Bug 111471 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Owen Taylor 2004-12-13 20:28:37 UTC 
Dropping priority since no dups have been received for quite a while.
Comment 8 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-02-02 11:31:45 UTC 
I'm going to close this, since with my recent changes in CVS, Xft, Cairo, and FT2 backends won't crash anymore.  They will just render a lot of empty boxes instead.  Not really useful, but better than crashing.

We will wait for cairo to ship with an internal font, to do something better...