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fontforge package

fontforge crashed with SIGSEGV in GDrawFontMetrics()

Bug #1061005 reported by Serhiy on 2012-10-03

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fontforge (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Just installed it and tried to launch in KDE 4.9.1.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: fontforge 0.0.20110222-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 3 18:05:15 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/fontforge
ProcCmdline: fontforge MagistralC_Bold.PFB
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0xb7325ce1 <GDrawFontMetrics+145>: mov 0x48(%eax),%edx
PC (0xb7325ce1) ok
source "0x48(%eax)" (0x00000048) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: fontforge
StacktraceTop:
GDrawFontMetrics () from /usr/lib/libgdraw.so.4
?? ()
__libc_start_main (main=0x805ea50, argc=2, ubp_av=0xbf958424, init=0x81c4ff0, fini=0x81c5060, rtld_fini=0xb7797270 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbf95841c) at libc-start.c:226
?? ()
Title: fontforge crashed with SIGSEGV in GDrawFontMetrics()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare tape video

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Serhiy (xintx-ua) wrote on 2012-10-03:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (950 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (102 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (14.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (824 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (510 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (687 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (731 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (8.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-10-03:

#2

StacktraceTop:
GDrawFontMetrics (fi=0x97ade78, as=0x8360244, ds=0xbf9577ac, ld=0xbf9577b0) at gdrawtxt.c:2339
?? ()
__libc_start_main (main=0x805ea50, argc=2, ubp_av=0xbf958424, init=0x81c4ff0, fini=0x81c5060, rtld_fini=0xb7797270 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbf95841c) at libc-start.c:226
?? ()

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-10-03: Stacktrace.txt

#3

Stacktrace.txt Edit (836 bytes, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-10-03: StacktraceSource.txt

#4

StacktraceSource.txt Edit (802 bytes, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2012-10-03: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#5

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (880 bytes, text/plain)

Changed in fontforge (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

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Serhiy (xintx-ua) wrote on 2012-10-03:

#6

The same for openbox on a laptop without custom fonts.

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Serhiy (xintx-ua) wrote on 2012-10-03:

#7

Upgrading from Pascal de Bruijns' PPA didn't help.

$ dpkg -s fontforge | grep Version
Version: 0.0.20120101+git-1pmjdebruijn1~precise

$ fontforge --version
Copyright (c) 2000-2011 by George Williams.
Executable based on sources from 23:14 GMT 25-Feb-2011-ML.
Library based on sources from 13:48 GMT 22-Feb-2011.
fontforge 20110225
libfontforge 20110222-ML

Serhiy (xintx-ua) on 2013-11-06

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