[OT] Re: 2.6.10 xfs segfault on boot startup?

[Mathieu Segaud <matt@minas-morgul.org>]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> disait dernièrement que :

> Greetings all;
>
> I just rebooted to a "still got that new car smell" fresh 2.6.10, and 
> this went by on the boot screen while it was starting the various 
> services in init.d:
>
> Starting xfs: /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2377 Segmentation fault      
> ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale
> /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2404 Segmentation fault      ttmkfdir 
> -d . -o fonts.scale

it is a userland problem. seems like you have some garbage in your fonts dir.

>
> I had installed some new ttf fonts over the last day or so, and had 
> used them with the beta OOo-1.9-xxx before rebooting from 
> 2.6.10-V0.33-04, but when I did a 'service xfs restart' just before 
> seeing if startx worked (it did obviousy) no further errors were 
> output, and it was running when I did that, so its apparently not 
> repeatable.

I had this message when emerging xorg-x11 on my gentoo box. ttmkfdir does
not seem robust enough when upgrading fonts.

> But it was a bit puzzling.  Anybody have an idea?  Self-healing 
> software, the Holy Grail...
>
> Merry Christmas wishes to all that celebrate it on this list.

thx, merry xmas

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