[vdr] VDR 1.5.5: segfault in fontconfig

[Stefan Huelswitt]

On 25 Jun 2007 Luca Olivetti <luca at ventoso.org> wrote:

Hi,

>> trying to upgrade to 1.5.5 I'm facing the problem that VDR
>> segfaults right on startup (no plugins envolved).
> 
> First step is to check if you have some tt font installed.

I have a bunch of luxi*.ttf in the truetype font directory, one
of them is "Luxi Sans".

> Then check /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (and subdirectories in /etc/fonts) to 
> see if "Sans Serif" points to an existing font (it usually point to Vera 
> Sans or DejaVu, so you should have that font installed).

I find fonts.conf hard to understand. As far as I see, Luxi Sans
is linked correctly (it's default fonts.conf installed by
fontconfig):

<!--
  Sans-serif faces
 -->
	<alias>
		<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
		<family>Helvetica</family>
		<family>Arial</family>
		<family>Verdana</family>
		<family>Albany AMT</family>
		<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
		<family>Luxi Sans</family>
		<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
		<family>AR PL KaitiM GB</family>
		<family>AR PL KaitiM Big5</family>
		<family>ＭＳ ゴシック</family>
		<family>Baekmuk Dotum</family>
		<family>SimSun</family>
		<family>FreeSans</family>
		<default><family>sans-serif</family></default>
	</alias>

Regards.

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Stefan Huelswitt
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