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 07:55:34
In message <20060110123306.GA18919@lori.ghen.be>, Geert Hendrickx writes:
>On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:30:09AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> 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...
>
>Not for me...
>
Hmm -- that did solve it for me and at least one other person. You did run
/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/fc-cache --force
(I forgot the --force option before....)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb