Re: Second 4.6.0 release candidate
David Dawes <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.xfree86.devel |
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:38:10AM +0000, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote: > >> The second release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available. >> The source tarball can be found at: >> >> ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.902.tar.bz2 >> >> This version marks the beginning of the intensive testing phase for this >> release. Please report problems/success, etc here. > >Is there a broken (italic) font ? >mozilla and firefox keep getting wedged in tight loops. > > firefox file:/ >is fine, but if I view source (ctrl-U) the process spins (cpu 99%+, >strace and ltrace show nothing, process does respond to signals). > >I started seeing this when I upgraded to XFree86-4.5.99.902 >(from CVS head). Previous version was probably six weeks ago. While looking into this, I did find a bug in fontconfig where memory could get freed twice. I don't see the same symptoms, but this problem does happen in code paths that get used when slanting a font. I'm committing the patch now. Let me know if it makes a difference for you. David -- David Dawes X-Oz Technologies www.XFree86.org/~dawes www.x-oz.com