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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: firefox does not start after update to Tumbleweed 20220410
From:       "Xu Zhao" <i () xuzhao ! net>
Date:       2022-04-19 17:42:04
Message-ID: 8ee8a451-ea05-40d9-9e14-84d419508a1a () www ! fastmail ! com
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The root cause is https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198497.
The patch is now in M17N, but yet to be merged to Tumbleweed.

Best,
Xu

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Xu Zhao
i@xuzhao.net

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, at 1:37 PM, Berthold Höllmann wrote:
> 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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