Package: xfstt Version: 1.6-3 Followup-For: Bug #270324
never thought I could bring my system into a state of total lock-up but I can... with just one font. Everything freezes, mouse, keyboard, screen (black with some barely perceptible patterns). Reset is the only escape (since the keyboard is locked no ctl-alt-bksp or f1 is possible). I'm running Debian Sarge 2.6.8-2-386-2-386 with Xfree 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1. I need to create a custom font with phonetic characters for an application I've built. The programming language (Unicon) will only take xls fonts. I took a Tex ipa font (tipa) and loaded the pfb file into fontforge (a font editor). I organised the font according to my needs and then generated the ttf font (still using fontforge). I installed the ttf font using the KDE font installer and it worked perfectly. Openoffice, Abiword, everybody saw it and liked it. So far no problem.
I now had to get the font to be recognised as an xlsfont. I followed the Debian mini-howto http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/TT-Debian-3.html setting up the xfs server, and then setting up the xfstt server to add truetype support. I install the font as per instructions and it shows up nicely with $xlsfonts. It even shows up using xfontsel and all appears normal. The problem is that any time after that any application that even has the font available will crash the system as described in the first paragraph. As I said, the font works fine as long as it is not an xls font - the catch 22 is that an xls font is what it has to be. I can send you a copy of the ttf font if you wish.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Versions of packages xfstt depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- debconf information: xfstt/fonts_not_provided: * xfstt/default_port_changed: xfstt/listen_tcp: false
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