From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261911AbUL0PhQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:37:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261910AbUL0PhP (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:37:15 -0500 Received: from zamok.crans.org ([138.231.136.6]:56790 "EHLO zamok.crans.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261908AbUL0PhC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:37:02 -0500 From: Mathieu Segaud To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Re: 2.6.10 xfs segfault on boot startup? References: <200412241942.36264.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:37:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200412241942.36264.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (Gene Heskett's message of "Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:42:36 -0500") Message-ID: <87wtv392hv.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett 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 -- if (!cost_analysis) goto darwinism; - Mike Galbraith explaining economics on linux-kernel