The following reply was made to PR pkg/29837; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rob Quinn <rquinn@sec.sprint.net>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29837: pkgsrc/fontconfig (and ethereal and firefox) core dumps on TrueType fonts
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:35:33 -0500

 > As a workaround, you can remove the directory from your
 > fontpath (xset -fp ...).
 
  It's not in my font path.  And I thought fonts were all done on the X server?
 Removing that directory on the client machine is enough to clear up my problem.