From kde-devel  Tue Apr 03 23:33:58 2001
From: "Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty () tdyc ! com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 23:33:58 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Every app in 2.1.1 crashes (using antialiasing)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=98634094630974

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:08:26PM -0700, Jonathan Terhorst wrote:
> I'm having major problems with qt-2.3.0, xf 4.0.3, and the latest kde-2.1.1 
> rpms on mandrake 7.2. Namely, anytime I try to fire up a KDE app with 
> QT_XFT=1 it crashes as follows:
> 
> [jonathan@spe-94-93 bin]$ QT_XFT=1 konqueror &
> [2] 28829
> [jonathan@spe-94-93 bin]$ KCrash: crashing.... crashRecursionCounter = 2
> KCrash: Application Name = konqueror path = <unknown>
> 
> This is true for basically every binary in every KDE package, including the 
> desktop stuff itself - so KDE won't even start up (!).
> 
> Without setting QT_XFT it starts up fine, albeit without antialiasing. On the 
> other hand I can start up the QT designer, licq, and other non-KDE apps that 
> link to QT using QT_XFT=1 and I get purty anti-aliased fonts. So the problem 
> lies somewhere with KDE itself. Could someone point me in the right direction 
> as far as debugging goes? As shown above I'm not even getting a stack trace 
> when it crashes. I'd like to help out and find this bug which a lot of people 
> seem to be experiencing. Thanks,

we saw this problem with Debian's freetype package for a while (and still with
some types of fonts)... a newer freetype package was uploaded and things
worked again.  

Ivan

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