Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade



On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 16:10:21 -0800, Towncat wrote:
On dec. 31, 00:30, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote:
As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded
it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then:

[...]

(gecko:14849): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font,
expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Serif 12.798828125'
Segmentation fault

Try this:

$ export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO="true"
$ iceweasel -safe-mode

[...]

Thanks, it did help. Actually, I didn't even need the -safe-mode
switch.

So what does (or does not, as the case is) pango do?

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an
emphasis on internationalization. (quoted from http://www.pango.org/)

If you only read web pages in languages which are based on the Latin
alphabet then you don't need to use pango. Turning off pango is
sometimes even recommended as a means to speed up the HTML rendering of
fireweasel.

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