Re: Firefox segfaults if no fonts are installed

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 27 September 2015 at 17:44, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 05:09:55PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>> On 27 September 2015 at 17:03, Joerg Sonnenberger
>> <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:30:58PM +0000, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
>> >> Fresh install of NetBSD 6.1.5 on amd64.
>> >> Firefox (38.0.5 from pkgsrc) does not work after install
>> >> before installing truetype fonts.
>> >
>> > Yes, known old issue. They don't care.
>>
>> They, who?
>
> Mozilla.
>
>> I did install FF 38 without additional fonts and it did not segfault.
>> But it was rubbish to look at and I installed liberation.
>
> Mozilla software has been just crashing since at least the single digit
> versions when fontconfig wouldn't find any font. If it looks rubbish,
> you might have some bitmap font or the like available somewhere.
>

Running FF 38.0.5 from binary repos:
ftp://mirrorservice.org:21/sites/ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/7.0_RC1/All/

Never had a seg fault with this one.

I mentioned fonts because the OP thought this was the problem.



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Ottavio