Re: Problems with Mozilla Crashing

From: Robin Laing (Robin.Laing_at_drdc-rddc.gc.ca)
Date: 04/29/04

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To: Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Robin Laing wrote:
    > John Nichel wrote:
    >
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I've searched the archives and found quite a few people are having
    >> problems with Mozilla and Fedora 1. I tried all the suggestions that
    >> I found: installed M$'s TTF fonts, uninstalled/reinstalled the
    >> ttfonts-ja package, created a new profile from scratch, etc. and still
    >> no go. I've tried these steps both with the RPM version (1.4) and the
    >> latest download from Mozilla (1.6), but Mozilla will still just 'exit'
    >> with no warning, and no error messages. Does anyone have any other
    >> suggestions? TIA
    >>
    >
    > If it is site dependent, check for a problem with fonts.
    >
    > I had this problem when accessing certain sites and found that there was
    > a font problem and makeing a link fixed all my crashes.
    >
    > There was no zysong.ttf font on my system and creating a link from
    > zysnog.ttf > gbsn001p.ttf stopped 99.9% of my crashes.
    >
    > This is in the following directory.
    > /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType
    >
    > There is a bug report on the RedHat site about this and is where I found
    > it.
    >

    Here is a RedHat link to the problem.

    http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04215.html 

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