On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:57:13PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The hang is probably a bug, but your use of top to diagnose the problem does > > not elucidate the situation, for the reasons explained above. > > My X hanged when I select the font > -*-*-*-*-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > in xfontsel with nvidia drivers (with nv driver, > xfontsel showed some garbage but X didn't hang). > > This font is from xfonts-cronyx-misc package. > It seems it is broken. Look at Debian bug #170413. > > After upgrading xfonts-cronyx-misc to version 2.3.8-4, > everything work fine.
It sounds like a badly-formed font choked a rasterizer. That would be a bug in both (the font for being badly formed, and the rasterizer for being able to be DoSed by a bad font). Thanks for following up! -- G. Branden Robinson | Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux | crutch for weak-minded people who [EMAIL PROTECTED] | need strength in numbers. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Jesse Ventura
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