After doing an emerge -U world, I noticed that OpenOffice would freeze when trying to render fonts even a little bit out of the ordinary. After much weeping and gnashing to teeth, I finally found that using direct font paths in XF86Config instead of XFS prevented this problem. I run LTSP, and OpenOffice seems to have no trouble rendering the fonts with XFS on the thin clients. It only freezes when the LTSP server's X server is using XFS instead of font paths. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.20-gaming-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://lug.mtu.edu/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 oss apm encode foomaticdb gnome libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib quicktime xml2 xv directfb gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex svga java mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla cdr alsa arts avi cups crypt emacs kde gif png jpeg tcltk X xmms zlib truetype spell xinerama"
* app-office/openoffice-bin Latest version available: 1.1.0 Latest version installed: 1.1.0 Size of downloaded files: 76,511 kB Homepage: http://www.openoffice.org Description: OpenOffice productivity suite (Note: Tried the source ebuild and an installation directly from OOo download - same problem every time.) * x11-base/xfree Latest version available: 4.3.0-r3 Latest version installed: 4.3.0-r3 Size of downloaded files: 71,026 kB Homepage: http://www.xfree.org Description: Xfree86: famous and free X server
You would probably best report this to openoffice itself. It seems that there is a bug in code that tries retrieve the actual fonts from the server. The bug is certainly not caused by the bin ebuild.
*** Bug 50825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***