Re: [Bug: 21.5-b18+xft] dumps core starting in X

giacomo> #5 0x08254ede in truename_via_XListFonts (dpy=0x881a538, giacomo> font_name=0x1f <Address 0x1f out of bounds>) at objects-x.c:636 Thanks for the report, I've now seen the same thing. What is happening here is that a "Lisp_Font_Instance" that contains garbage in the XFontStruct member is getting passed to one of the truename functions, and the garbage name member is getting extracted and passed to X, which as always crashes. I'm not sure why this happens now and not before, but I'm in the process of going through the code and making sure the Lisp_Font_Instance is properly initialized (ie, the XFontStruct is NULL if an Xft font was found) and that accesses to that XFontStruct are checked for NULL before use. Patch in a day or so. For me a workaround was to specify only the default face's font, but I think that's pretty random, YMMV. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.