Subject: Re: firefox-bin + xorg (was Re: Xorg vs XFree86)
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/10/2006 07:30:09
In message <20060110080546.GA10899@lori.ghen.be>, Geert Hendrickx writes:
>On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:05:10AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> Acroread and other Linux emulation programs don't find xorg fonts.  I had
>> to edit /usr/pkg/emul/linux/etc/fonts/local.conf and add
>> 
>> 	<dir>/usr/pkg/xorg/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
>> 	<dir>/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
>> 
>> right after the <fontconfig> line, then run 
>> 
>> 	/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/fc-cache
>> 
>> Those two entries fixed acroread and firefox-bin.  
>
>firefox-linux keeps segfaulting for me on xorg systems, although acroread
>and other linux binaries work just fine.  Anyone else having this problem?  
>

The segfaults are fixed by this technique...

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb