Bug#170805: xfontsel crashes the X server
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:03:46PM +0100, Ivan Todoroski wrote: > I also ran into this problem, here are some more details: > > I can confirm the problem persists in the 4.2.1 packages, but with a different > font than Aleksandra (also I'm using "radeon" driver whereas she uses "nv"). > > The font is a bitmap font named "tixus" and comes from an old debian package > called "xfonts-gimpers" which is not in the debian archive any more. I'm > attaching the small 3kB font file to this message. > > To reproduce this problem you can put it in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, run > update-fonts-dir on that directory, and then restart X. > > Try running first "xfontsel -pattern -gimpers-tixus-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". > > You will notice that the font displays correctly using size of 10 pixels which > is it's native size. But as soon as you try it with size different than 10 pix > it will crash the X server. > > I'm guessing that the font Aleksandra was using contained the same thing that > triggered this bitmap-font-resize bug in XFree 4.2.1. The reason that the font > sometimes worked and sometimes crashed her X server is that she was probably > using the font at its native size in her xterm consoles, but she forced it to > be rendered at a non-native size (18) with xfontsel. I could be wrong of > course, but atleast on my machine X consistently crashes when using the font > at non-native size, regardless if it's xterm or xfontsel or any other client. > > That's about all I can think of, I'd be happy to provide any more information > you might need. I cannot reproduce this problem at all with xfree86 4.2.1-6 using the font you provided. Can you still reproduce it with 4.2.1-6 or later? -- G. Branden Robinson| You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpRRLMlTjVL1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#170805: xfontsel crashes the X server
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:03:46PM +0100, Ivan Todoroski wrote: > I also ran into this problem, here are some more details: > > I can confirm the problem persists in the 4.2.1 packages, but with a different > font than Aleksandra (also I'm using "radeon" driver whereas she uses "nv"). > > The font is a bitmap font named "tixus" and comes from an old debian package > called "xfonts-gimpers" which is not in the debian archive any more. I'm > attaching the small 3kB font file to this message. > > To reproduce this problem you can put it in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, run > update-fonts-dir on that directory, and then restart X. > > Try running first "xfontsel -pattern -gimpers-tixus-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". > > You will notice that the font displays correctly using size of 10 pixels which > is it's native size. But as soon as you try it with size different than 10 pix > it will crash the X server. > > I'm guessing that the font Aleksandra was using contained the same thing that > triggered this bitmap-font-resize bug in XFree 4.2.1. The reason that the font > sometimes worked and sometimes crashed her X server is that she was probably > using the font at its native size in her xterm consoles, but she forced it to > be rendered at a non-native size (18) with xfontsel. I could be wrong of > course, but atleast on my machine X consistently crashes when using the font > at non-native size, regardless if it's xterm or xfontsel or any other client. > > That's about all I can think of, I'd be happy to provide any more information > you might need. I cannot reproduce this problem at all with xfree86 4.2.1-6 using the font you provided. Can you still reproduce it with 4.2.1-6 or later? -- G. Branden Robinson| You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#170805: xfontsel crashes the X server
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #170805 I also ran into this problem, here are some more details: I can confirm the problem persists in the 4.2.1 packages, but with a different font than Aleksandra (also I'm using "radeon" driver whereas she uses "nv"). The font is a bitmap font named "tixus" and comes from an old debian package called "xfonts-gimpers" which is not in the debian archive any more. I'm attaching the small 3kB font file to this message. To reproduce this problem you can put it in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, run update-fonts-dir on that directory, and then restart X. Try running first "xfontsel -pattern -gimpers-tixus-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". You will notice that the font displays correctly using size of 10 pixels which is it's native size. But as soon as you try it with size different than 10 pix it will crash the X server. I'm guessing that the font Aleksandra was using contained the same thing that triggered this bitmap-font-resize bug in XFree 4.2.1. The reason that the font sometimes worked and sometimes crashed her X server is that she was probably using the font at its native size in her xterm consoles, but she forced it to be rendered at a non-native size (18) with xfontsel. I could be wrong of course, but atleast on my machine X consistently crashes when using the font at non-native size, regardless if it's xterm or xfontsel or any other client. That's about all I can think of, I'd be happy to provide any more information you might need. P.S. I tried, perhaps a bit naively, to get a backtrace from the X server crash by logging in from another machine while X is running, using gdb to attach to the X server process and then reproducing the crash with gdb attached, but merely attaching gdb to the X process immediately froze my machine tight, requiring a cold reboot! :-} -- Package-specific info: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c59 (I deleted the non-relevant stuff from this section, my XF86Config-4 is managed by debconf, and the XFree86.0.log file provides no more information than the one provided by Aleksandra) Section "Files" #FontPath "unix/:7100"# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" # Added by me FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" EndSection -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux inspiron 2.4.20-ck1 #1 Thu Dec 5 17:16:02 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on: ii debconf 1.2.16 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.1-5GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xserver-common4.2.1-4files and utilities common to all ii zlib1g1:1.1.4-8 compression library - runtime -- debconf information excluded /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/tixus.bdf.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Bug#170805: xfontsel crashes the X server
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #170805 I also ran into this problem, here are some more details: I can confirm the problem persists in the 4.2.1 packages, but with a different font than Aleksandra (also I'm using "radeon" driver whereas she uses "nv"). The font is a bitmap font named "tixus" and comes from an old debian package called "xfonts-gimpers" which is not in the debian archive any more. I'm attaching the small 3kB font file to this message. To reproduce this problem you can put it in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, run update-fonts-dir on that directory, and then restart X. Try running first "xfontsel -pattern -gimpers-tixus-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". You will notice that the font displays correctly using size of 10 pixels which is it's native size. But as soon as you try it with size different than 10 pix it will crash the X server. I'm guessing that the font Aleksandra was using contained the same thing that triggered this bitmap-font-resize bug in XFree 4.2.1. The reason that the font sometimes worked and sometimes crashed her X server is that she was probably using the font at its native size in her xterm consoles, but she forced it to be rendered at a non-native size (18) with xfontsel. I could be wrong of course, but atleast on my machine X consistently crashes when using the font at non-native size, regardless if it's xterm or xfontsel or any other client. That's about all I can think of, I'd be happy to provide any more information you might need. P.S. I tried, perhaps a bit naively, to get a backtrace from the X server crash by logging in from another machine while X is running, using gdb to attach to the X server process and then reproducing the crash with gdb attached, but merely attaching gdb to the X process immediately froze my machine tight, requiring a cold reboot! :-} -- Package-specific info: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c59 (I deleted the non-relevant stuff from this section, my XF86Config-4 is managed by debconf, and the XFree86.0.log file provides no more information than the one provided by Aleksandra) Section "Files" #FontPath "unix/:7100"# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" # Added by me FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" EndSection -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux inspiron 2.4.20-ck1 #1 Thu Dec 5 17:16:02 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on: ii debconf 1.2.16 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.1-5GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xserver-common4.2.1-4files and utilities common to all ii zlib1g1:1.1.4-8 compression library - runtime -- debconf information excluded tixus.bdf.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Bug#170805: xfontsel crashes the X server
Package: xserver-xfree86 Hi! I still don't use the new 4.2.0 X packages and I can not reproduce this bug with the old 4.1.0 packages. But as they assigned important severity I think it is worth not to wait until I can provide you with more information. I requested them for /var/log/XFree86.0.log. It is at the end of this message. Anton Zinoviev - Forwarded message from "Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Bug#170413: xfonts-cronyx-misc: xfontsel crash From: "Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: reportbug 1.50 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:19:09 +0300 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=SENT_BY_BTS,FORGED_RCVD_FOUND version=2.20 Package: xfonts-cronyx-misc Version: 2.3.8-1 Severity: important Hello! I am not sure that it is bug of xfonts-cronyx-misc and not of xfontsel (or X server?). The problem is following: when I call "xfontsel -pattern -cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1" (or by any other way try to see fonts from xfonts-cronyx-misc package in xfontsel), my X Window System crashes. All fonts from other packages does not have this problem. I can use these fonts in unicode xterm without any problems. I can "less /etc/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel" in xterm with these fonts without any problems. I use unmodified /etc/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel from xbase-clients package; if I delete from "*sampleTextUCS" line all symbols except Latin & Cyrillic, no crash occur. If I run xfontsel inside Xnest X server, the main X server crashes. I am ready to tell you any other information if it is necessary. Regards, Alexandra. And thank you for these fonts! -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux serv 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 16 00:16:17 MSK 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R Versions of packages xfonts-cronyx-misc depends on: ii xutils4.2.1-3X Window System utility programs ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-3miscellaneous X clients ii xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-3the XFree86 X server - End forwarded message - XFree86 Version 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-3 20021016191246 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.1.log", Time: Sat Nov 23 21:05:09 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "NVScreen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Samsung SyncMaster 151B" (**) | |-->Device "Riva TnT2 with nv driver" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "ru" (**) XKB: layout: "ru" (**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:win_toggle" (**) XKB: options: "grp:win_toggle" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,unix/:7110" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 10 (II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8058, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1130 card 8086,1130 rev 04 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,1131 card , rev 04 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card , rev 05 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,2440 card , rev 05 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 0
Bug#170805: xfontsel crashes the X server
Package: xserver-xfree86 Hi! I still don't use the new 4.2.0 X packages and I can not reproduce this bug with the old 4.1.0 packages. But as they assigned important severity I think it is worth not to wait until I can provide you with more information. I requested them for /var/log/XFree86.0.log. It is at the end of this message. Anton Zinoviev - Forwarded message from "Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Bug#170413: xfonts-cronyx-misc: xfontsel crash From: "Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: reportbug 1.50 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:19:09 +0300 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=SENT_BY_BTS,FORGED_RCVD_FOUND version=2.20 Package: xfonts-cronyx-misc Version: 2.3.8-1 Severity: important Hello! I am not sure that it is bug of xfonts-cronyx-misc and not of xfontsel (or X server?). The problem is following: when I call "xfontsel -pattern -cronyx-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1" (or by any other way try to see fonts from xfonts-cronyx-misc package in xfontsel), my X Window System crashes. All fonts from other packages does not have this problem. I can use these fonts in unicode xterm without any problems. I can "less /etc/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel" in xterm with these fonts without any problems. I use unmodified /etc/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel from xbase-clients package; if I delete from "*sampleTextUCS" line all symbols except Latin & Cyrillic, no crash occur. If I run xfontsel inside Xnest X server, the main X server crashes. I am ready to tell you any other information if it is necessary. Regards, Alexandra. And thank you for these fonts! -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux serv 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 16 00:16:17 MSK 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R Versions of packages xfonts-cronyx-misc depends on: ii xutils4.2.1-3X Window System utility programs ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-3miscellaneous X clients ii xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-3the XFree86 X server - End forwarded message - XFree86 Version 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-3 20021016191246 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.1.log", Time: Sat Nov 23 21:05:09 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "NVScreen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Samsung SyncMaster 151B" (**) | |-->Device "Riva TnT2 with nv driver" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "ru" (**) XKB: layout: "ru" (**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:win_toggle" (**) XKB: options: "grp:win_toggle" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,unix/:7110" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 10 (II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8058, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1130 card 8086,1130 rev 04 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,1131 card , rev 04 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card , rev 05 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,2440 card , rev 05 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00
