Bug 270956

Summary:	Font installer crashes the whole desktop when viewing a specific font preview
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	kde
Component:	kcm_fontinst	Assignee:	Craig Drummond <craig>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	investigated, triaged
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	TeXXTie20-Regular

Description kde 2011-04-14 15:39:15 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

I have installed TeXLive for F14 x86_64 from this repository:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive

With it, comes a horde of different fonts which are browsable in the Font Installer. Whenever I try to view a TeX font called TeXXTIE20 (Regular), it crashes the whole desktop. This happens consistently every time. I haven't yet checked the hundreds of other TeX fonts to see if some others cause this behaviour as well.

Here is /var/log/messages output of the crash:

Apr 14 16:31:52 localhost abrt[5496]: saved core dump of pid 4830 (/usr/bin/Xorg) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1302787911-4830.new/coredump (65785856 bytes)
Apr 14 16:31:52 localhost abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1302787911-4830' creation detected

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-04-19 23:02:23 UTC

Could you attach the font that causes the crash?

Comment 2 kde 2011-04-20 16:50:40 UTC

Created attachment 59160 [details]
TeXXTie20-Regular

This should be the offending font file causing the crash.

Comment 3 Craig Drummond 2011-05-11 22:56:23 UTC

Just tried with font installer from 4.6.2 - and a preview appeared. Font looks very odd, but no crash occured. Perhaps its a 64bit issue? Or Graphics driver issue? I'm using NVidia at home, and intel at work - but both 32-bit. Which driver are you using?

Comment 4 kde 2011-05-21 13:21:15 UTC

I just updated to Fedora 15 x86_64 with KDE 4.6.3, crash is happening here as well. My graphics driver in F14 was 2.12.0 and the current one is xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.15.0-3.fc15.x86_64.

I'll file a bug with Fedora as well, in case this isn't a KDE bug.

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2011-05-21 17:12:54 UTC

I cannot reproduce this bug either. The font certainly looks "non conforming", so it might be a freetype or a Qt issue.

To investigate the problem further, please add the backtrace for the crash. For more information, see http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports

Comment 6 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-22 02:01:47 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

If you have already provided the requested information, please set the bug status as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed.

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Comment 7 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-27 03:32:09 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!