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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: firefox does not start after update to Tumbleweed 20220410
From:       Berthold_Höllmann <berthold-tumbleweed () xn--hllmanns-n4a ! de>
Date:       2022-04-19 17:37:15
Message-ID: 871qxtug8k.fsf () xn--hllmanns-n4a ! de
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Michael Hamilton <michael@actrix.gen.nz> writes:

> On Wednesday 13 April 2022, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> 
>> > it crashes only with some specific fonts e.g. Noto Sans, Open Sans,
>> > ...  Font DeJaVu Sans works
>> 
>> Maybe
>> 
>>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/merge_requests/158
>> 
>> helps.  Still waiting for confirmation before applying to FreeType's
>> git...
>> 
>> A temporary alternative would be to build FreeType without SVG
>> support.
>> 
>> 
>>     Werner
>>
>
> This can't be happening to everyone (firefox crashing) or there would be 
> more complaints. So why is it happening to some of us?  Are we missing 
> or using fonts or libraries others are not? 
>
> The only clue I have is both firefox and pycharm opened 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/SourceCodePro-Regular.otf and fell over right
> afterward.
>
> If a fix is not imminent, is there are there libraries or fonts I can remove
> to work around the problem.  I've currently moved /etc/fonts to 
> /etc/fonts.disabled (but that causes issues with some PDF documents
> when viewed in okular).

I uninstalled both packages containing the SourceCodePro font from my
system (texlive-sourcecodepro-fonts, adobe-sourcecodepro-fonts) and the
problem seems to be gone for now.

I really would prefer reinstalling the packages after an upstream bugfix
solves the problem.

Berthold

>
> Michael

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