On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote:
 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?
>
All files in /usr/share/fonts/* have 644 permissions.

Jorge

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