When selecting fonts in GIMP (maybe other applications, too) I can only check about 20 - sometimes even less - fonts before xfree crashes. It does not depend on the font I select but occures in random manner. I played a bit with that bug and got one situation where even the initial selected font of the text-tool in gimp was enough to crash gimp Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put some fonts (including some truetype fonts) in your XF86Config fontpath (fonts.dir generated by ttmkfdir) 2. Add 'Loai "freetype"' to your XF86Config 3. Start XFree 4. Start GIMP 5. Use the TEXT tool and select some fonts. Best done with the dynamic text tool as it is possible to preview the text in the selected font. Just press up- and down-arrow key to scroll tru the list and see xfree crash. Actual Results: XFree crashes in random manner when using the text tool of GIMP. Expected Results: XFree should NEVER crash because of fonts! Portage 2.0.49-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gaming-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.56.146/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at/ rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow xmms tcpd esd aalib acpi alsa apache2 -apm -arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cscope cups curl dedicated dga directfb doc dvb dvd encode ethereal evo fbcon flash foomaticdb gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib ipv6 jack java jikes joystick jpeg junit -kde kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir -mbox mikmod memlimit mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses -nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres prelude python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl scanner sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk truetype usb videos wmf wxwindows X Xaw3d xinerama xosd xml2 xv zlib" --- As this bug could result in loss of data and makes working with gimp and other apps a pain - I marked this bug critical. I have about 46 MB extra fonts in my list. Currently I use the freefont, sharefont and microsoft font-package. Additionaly I loaded some fonts from fontz.de and some corel draw cdrom. This fonts never made any trouble when I used Debian on my machine. I'm quite sure this bug is caused by either a buggy freetype or xfree86 package as GIMP should have no possibility to crash xfree as they run in completely different address spaces.
When replacing "freetype" by "xtt" xfree86 does no longer crash. Found that solution on the xfree86 mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/xfree86@xfree86.org/msg06876.html.
If you have some time, could you remerge xfree-4.3.0-r3 and see if it still has this problem? I've added some patches.
seems to work
