Re: [gentoo-user] web browsers crash at sourceforge.net project pages

["José Romildo Malaquias" <j.romildo@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:38:29AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:06 AM, José Romildo Malaquias
> <j.romildo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On my ~amd64 systems some web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1, Midori
> > 0.4.3, Opera 11.61 Build 1250) just crash when loading any
> > sourceforge.net project page. Konquerer does not crash, though.
> >
> > I have already run revdep-rebuild, but the problem persists.
> >
> > Has anybody seen this? Any clues?
> 
> They work for me, but in the olden days I had a similar problem that
> was due to a corrupt font. Every time a site would use that font (or
> specific glyph?) it would die.

After uninstalling almost media-fonts/* packages, the problem still
happens.

# eix -IAc media-fonts
[I] media-fonts/encodings (1.0.4{tbz2}@07/26/2011): X.Org font encodings
[I] media-fonts/font-alias (1.0.3{tbz2}@07/27/2011): X.Org font aliases
[I] media-fonts/font-misc-misc (1.1.2{tbz2}@07/27/2011): X.Org miscellaneous fonts
[I] media-fonts/font-util (1.2.0{tbz2}@07/26/2011): X.Org font utilities
Found 4 matches.

$ fc-list
Fixed:style=Bold
Fixed:style=Bold SemiCondensed
Fixed:style=SemiCondensed
Fixed:style=Oblique SemiCondensed
Fixed:style=Oblique
Fixed:style=ko
Fixed:style=ja
Fixed:style=Regular

Firefox, midori and opera crashes for both normal users I have on my
system, as well as for the root user.


Romildo.