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back on machine 1. Yesterday I was on -current as of 22nd of July, and everything appeared fine.
After the nightly rsync sessions I upgraded this morning to -current as of 25th of July. I also upgraded Eric's multilib packages.
This evening none of my Secondlife viewers works. Two of them are 32 bit applications, one is 64 bit. Excerpt from the log:
Code:
2012-07-26T21:01:23Z INFO: llwindow/llwindowsdl.cpp(2626) : getDynamicFallbackFontList: Getting system font list from FontConfig...
2012-07-26T21:01:23Z INFO: llwindow/llwindowsdl.cpp(2639) : getDynamicFallbackFontList: Language en
2012-07-26T21:01:23Z INFO: llwindow/llwindowsdl.cpp(2640) : getDynamicFallbackFontList: Location US
2012-07-26T21:01:23Z INFO: llwindow/llwindowsdl.cpp(2641) : getDynamicFallbackFontList: Variant UTF-8
2012-07-26T21:01:23Z INFO: llwindow/llwindowsdl.cpp(2643) : getDynamicFallbackFontList: Preferring fonts of language: en
do-not-directly-run-firestorm-bin: fcmatch.c:850: IA__FcFontSort: Assertion `result != ((void *)0)' failed.
2012-07-26T21:01:23Z INFO: llcommon/llapp.cpp(913) : unix_post_minidump_callback: generated minidump: /home/mar/.firestorm/logs/7fe11c06-b296-77e0-7071a957-307ba6f8.dmp
2012-07-26T21:01:23Z INFO: newview/llappviewer.cpp(3401) : handleViewerCrash: Handle viewer crash entry.
Obviously something to do with fonts and sorting of those.
I waded through 22 MB strace output, but it doesn't help much. There's lots of fontconfig cache reading, followed by the abort.
OK, after some googeling I found a workaround: reverting fontconfig (and fontconfig-compat32) back to version 2.8.0 (as shipped with Slackware 13.37) solves the issue.
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