Bug#456963: fontconfig: fc-cache segfaults on package install

2007-12-18 Thread Mark Whitis
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.5.0-2 Severity: important apt-get install fontconfig Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: fontconfig 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1589 not upgraded. Need to get 43.0kB of archives

Bug#456963: fontconfig: fc-cache segfaults on package install

2007-12-18 Thread Keith Packard
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 13:23 -0500, Mark Whitis wrote: > /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory It looks like one of the old cache files is breaking fontconfig somehow, but it's hard to know precisely where the issue is. If you could run this under strace and see which file was failing,

Bug#456963: fontconfig: fc-cache segfaults on package install

2007-12-18 Thread Mark Whitis
Thanks for the quick reply. On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Keith Packard wrote: It looks like one of the old cache files is breaking fontconfig somehow, but it's hard to know precisely where the issue is. If you could run this under strace and see which file was failing, then carefully save that file and

Bug#456963: fontconfig: fc-cache segfaults on package install

2007-12-18 Thread Keith Packard
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:30 -0500, Mark Whitis wrote: > so, apparently you have a sneaky bug that only fails when you don't have > debugging enabled. That's rather odd; the dbg package shouldn't have any effect on running applications. But, having successfully run, it would have deleted the cac

Bug#456963: fontconfig: fc-cache segfaults on package install

2008-09-28 Thread Michael Deegan
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.6.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #456963 After upgrading fontconfig from 2.4.2-1 to 2.6.0-1, I too got this same error. After also upgrading libfontconfig1 the problem went away (with an "invalid cache file" message). I did notice that the segfault occurs while processing a d