On 12/18/2016 09:28 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/18/2016 07:25 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >>> >>> The logs complain about helvetica, and I found similar stuff in the >>> net (not necessarilly about xterm). This appears to be a font problem, >>> which is essentially voodoo to me. xterm crashing instead of just >>> failing to bring up the menu seems to be an xterm bug indeed, but the >>> real problem is what to do to solve the missing fonts problem. >>> >> >> Try installing liberation-fonts and enabling them with `eselect >> fontconfig`. I had all sorts of display problems with Helvetica in >> Firefox until I added that package. >> > Done. Still no joy. > > Thanks > > Jorge >
Actually, I just had a thought. I stumbled onto a very weird fonts bug some years ago where Firefox would crash on loading certain pages. It was something very stupid, all fonts need to have world-readable permissions. If a font didn't FF would crash (it didn't handle fonts not being available gracefully AT ALL.) I chmod 644 the whole fonts directory and ran `fc-cache -fv` and it fixed the crashing Firefox. I wonder if xterm is running into not being able to open a font? Dan
