Hi.
I've installed the mozilla package from source.
After running it I've got a lot of messages with WARNING statement but I think the critical ones are:

WARNING: nsFontMetricsXft::DoMatch failed to match anything, file nsFontMetricsXft.cpp, line 1106
WARNING: nsFontMetricsXft::DoMatch failed to match anything, file nsFontMetricsXft.cpp, line 1106
###!!! ASSERTION: font metrics should not be null - bug 136248: 'NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)', file nsDeviceContext.cpp, line 706
Break: at file nsDeviceContext.cpp, line 706
###!!! ASSERTION: no font metrics: 'nsnull != aFontMetrics', file nsHTMLReflowState.cpp, line 2288
Break: at file nsHTMLReflowState.cpp, line 2288
Program /usr/lib/mozilla-1.3/mozilla-bin (pid = 8639) received segmentation fault signal.

I'am not familiar with X too much. What is missing? Any suggestions ?

if you compiled it from source this might be of help:

http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/...2/11/0136.html

thanks for help, but the link you've gave concerns the compilation stage;
my problem is runtime one (compilation ended successfully)

hmm... I'll keep looking then... sorry for being too quick with my searches.

jpbarto

Wow... been running through google a bit and that's not a well documented error... uhm... well here's what's working for me:
XFree86 4.3 from source.
Mozilla prebuilt 1.3.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425

sorry I can't be of more help... I'll keep my eyes open though.

recompile that big hog without xft support.
i've compiled mozilla dozens of times that fully compiled
but crashed immediately, or after several seconds.

# ac_add_options --enable-xft

jpbarto:
Be sure I never just post the problem
I've googled a lot for explanation before :)

whansard:
Thanks for the advice. I'll try.
But this advice creates next questions:
- what I am loosing without Xft?
- is it a bug (where? in mozilla? Xft?, font descriptions?)
- is binary version compiled with it? if so why I have a problem?

I would like also to get know what is rolling on not only remove the problem.

if you do a configure --help
you'll get half line descriptions of the options.
mozilla is so big, that nobody could actually answer
questions about it. i, just this week finally got mozilla
cvs to compile that is stable. i've had unstable builds
for months. Now i can't get phoenix-firebird to compile.

that's why I didn't even bother with the compile... just did a binary.

whansard:
Thanks a lot, " --disable-xft" works. Mozilla is running :)
Than I'll fight with xft....

goodly

it took me a while to figure this out too,
but if you go into /mozilla/dist/
you can tar clfvhz - bin > /mozilla.tgz
to backup the binaries of what you just compiled
in dist/bin/ they're mostly symlinks to other places
in the compiled code, and the tar h option copies the
files the links point to, instead of the links.