On Wednesday 19 April 2006 01:06, Ross Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:52 -0400, Bill Hartwell wrote: > > Ross Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 06:48 -0400, Bill Hartwell wrote: > > >> I'm using OO on a Gentoo system, and when I try to use spadmin to > > >> import fonts from my system font folders, it segfaults as shortly > > >> after I enter the path to the font folders. It's almost as if it's > > >> trying to read teh fonts in and hits an upper limit on how many fonts > > >> it can handle, and instead of processing that many fonts, it simply > > >> segfaults, thus importing ZERO fonts. > > > > > > Sounds plausible but how many fonts are in that folder? I don't think > > > spadmin "processes" the font files except to copy them eventually, but > > > it sounds like you haven't got that far yet - you appear to be at the > > > stage where spadmin builds the list of fonts, from which you will then > > > select the ones to import. I think it's only dealing with file names so > > > far. Are there any particularly weird file names in the folder? > > > > Not really. Just 1025 ttf files copied over from my old Windows font > > folder. I made sure to just copy the ttf files over, so there wouldn't > > be a problem with fon files. > > Hmmm. It wouldn't be the first time someone has hard coded a size of > 1024 for an array :) But at least there's an obvious workaround if this > is the problem.
Could it be that this is too long for the window manager? Have you tried importing fewer at a time? > > > And yes, it does seem as if it's crashing on building the font list, > > since it never even gets to the point of displaying the list before it > > crashes. Funny thing is, OO is the only program that doesn't have access > > to the fonts. Every other program on my system, from Nautilus to > > Scribus, can access the fonts, no problem. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
