Bug 77995 - kdmgreet crashes when doing /etc/init.d/kdm restart and xfstt is running and its usage is configured in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Summary: kdmgreet crashes when doing /etc/init.d/kdm restart and xfstt is running and ...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kdm
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian stable Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdm bugs tracker
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Reported: 2004-03-19 12:05 UTC by Ansgar Licher
Modified: 2008-05-19 17:30 UTC (History)
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Description Ansgar Licher 2004-03-19 12:05:26 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages
OS:          Linux

I want to use TrueType-Fonts under KDE 3.2 on Debian woody (KDE 3.2 binary packges downloaded and installed from the official KDE download servers).

I did the following according to http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian-3.html (TrueType under Debian Mini-HOWTO):

1. apt-get install xfstt
   # install & run xfstt

2. copied some Windows TrueType fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype
   (all font files have lowercase names) 
   # fonts to font directory

3. chmod 0444 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*
   # set correct rights

4. /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload
   # reload font server config

5. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
   Section "Files"
       FontPath   "unix/:7101"  # <-- xfstt
       FontPath   "unix/:7100"
       ...
   EndSection
   # added FontPath for xfstt

5. /etc/init.d/kdm restart
   # restart kdm

6. kdmgreet #crashes# with window displaying the "KDE crash bomb",
   telling that kdmgreet caused the SIGSEGV signal ...

When stopping xfstt, everything runs very well again.
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2004-03-19 17:19:43 UTC 
does this help?

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Petr Balá? wrote:
> I seen something similiar on one of my machines.
> It has been mismatch in some library (not sure which exactly
> byt probably libXft.so or libfreetype.so or libXrender.so).
> I found this library in /usr/lib AND /usr/X11R6/lib.
> Removing incorrect version solves problem
> (dpkg -S knows only one of these). I installed this library
> only from DEB packages - some unoficial - ds.
> I suggest ldd /usr/bin/kdm_greet and compare
> against know good machine.
Comment 2 Ansgar Licher 2004-03-23 12:29:57 UTC 
Hi ossi,

I fixed the problem already using a different work around:

I copied the TrueType font files to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and added 
the following line to "/etc/X11/XftConfig"

    dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"

This works anyway.

I am not sure, which way (yours or mine) would be the best, but it is 
running and it looks like it should.


What will happen to my error? Will it be fixed someday? Will I become a 
notice of that?

Greetings,
Ansgar


owner@bugs.kde.org schrieb am 19.03.2004 17:19:43:

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> does this help?
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Petr Bal
Comment 3 Oswald Buddenhagen 2004-03-23 14:59:16 UTC 
obvoiusly no kdm bug ... probably a misconfiguration intolerance in one of the underlying libraries.

oh, btw, http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html