kcmfontinst does no longer work

[Craig Drummond]

On Sunday 20 February 2005 01:32, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Sunday 20 February 2005 00:36, Martin Koller wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 February 2005 00:48, Craig Drummond wrote:
> > > So the crash is in fontconfig, no? Which version are you using?
> >
> > I don't know - but it's the same version I'm using for over a year, and
> > it always worked.

Well I'd need to know this to progress... I've used the default fontconfig 
supplied with SuSE9.1, and now 9.2, and its fine...

> >
> > I should mention that the crash only happens as root (or when a normal
> > user enters admin mode).

How many fonts do you have installed? Perhaps fontconfig is stumbling at 
refreshing its list?

>
> FWIW, running it as normal->root on my setup works fine. I don't think it's
> KCM related(e.g, related to the root loading). When looking at Martin's

Neither do I. The problem appears to be in the io-slave, or more precisely its 
usage of fontconfig.

> output it's not difficult to find things which looks suspicious:
>
> QObject::connect: No such slot KFI::CKCmFontInst::urlEntered(const KURL&)

Well this was a slight oversight, and I've fixed this now.

> kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
> kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
> kioslave: ####### CRASH ###### protocol = fonts pid = 26852 signal = 11

Well this would be the ioslave crashing...

Craig.
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