This is a bit strange. I updated a bunch of packages including freetype yesterday. After doing so, loading almost any app that was graphical resulted in a segfault. Previously running apps continued to run - but if I closed them, they wouldn't load. I rebooted and then X wouldn't load (not because X had a problem - just that it loaded up many things that would segfault). It took me almost a day to figure it out, but it seems that freetype was the culprit. Before upgrade: freetype-2.3.3 After upgrade: freetype-2.3.4-r2 The funny thing is downgrading to 2.3.3 didn't fix it. I had to downgrade to 2.1.10-r3 to get things working again. (Also, not sure if this is relevant, but after the upgrade, I couldn't recompile fontconfig - thinking that may be the problem. Couldn't after downgrading to 2.3.3 either. Only after the 2.1.x downgrade did fontconfig recompile). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Upgrade to freetype 2.3.4-r2 Actual Results: Segfaults all over the place! Expected Results: Worked emerge info output below (note that going from -O3 to -O2 didn't help either). Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer nostrip parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LINGUAS="en ar" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bittorrent browserplugin cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cvs dbus debug dga directfb divx4linux doc dri dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode exif fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp glitz gnutella gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk guile hal i8x0 iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k justify kde lame lcms ldap leim libcaca libg++ live mad maildir matroska mbox md5sum midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mozilla mp2 mp3 mpeg msn mudflap musepack mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin oav ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl pgp php plotutils png pnm pnp ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime radio rar readline real reflection rtsp samba sasl sdl session shout speex spell spl srt sse ssl stream subtitles subversion svg svga tcpd tetex tga theora tiff tivo truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd vesa videos vidix vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ar" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx vesa fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Reopen with some backtrace; not reproducible and pretty hard to guess. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
Outdated fontconfig...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179736 ***
