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

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

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 03:55:26PM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> 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.


The problem was with some packages installed from the lcd-filtering
overlay. After removing the overlay and reinstalled them, the web
browsers do not crash anymore.

# emerge -avt1 corefonts media-fonts/dejavu liberation-fonts fontconfig freetype x11-libs/cairo libXf


Romildo