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gnome-font-viewer package

gnome-font-viewer crashes with the 'webdings.ttf' font from the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package

Bug #1647906 reported by John Pye
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1717678: Crash when opening TTF font. Edit Remove
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gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

On updated Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Font Viewer 3.16.2, I get the following crash:

john@thunder:~$ gnome-font-viewer /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/webdings.ttf

(gnome-font-viewer:20485): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_find_base_dir: assertion 'text != NULL || length == 0' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The font in question comes from the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. For checking the specific font file my system downloaded,

john@thunder:~$ md5sum /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/webdings.ttf
1a56b45a66b07b4c576d5ead048ed992 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/webdings.ttf

Tags: xenial
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Norbert (nrbrtx)
tags: added: xenial
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