segmentation fault when starting 0.5.7

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. cd /home/holger/Desktop/font-manager-0.5.7
2. ./configure --prefix=/home/holger/bin/font-manager
3. make
4. make install
5. cd /home/holger/bin/font-manager/
6. bin/font-manager

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Seeing it running.

What version of the product are you using?
0.5.7

On what operating system?
Ubuntu 10.10
64bit

$ uname -a
Linux qualle 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 
x86_64 GNU/Linux

What desktop environment?

Please provide any additional information below.

Output from command:

INFO    :  Verified /home/holger/.fonts.conf
INFO    :  Font Manager is now starting
Speicherzugriffsfehler

End output

"Speicherzugriffsfehler" means "segmentation fault"

Could it be something to do with 64bit?

Do you need some more information, outputs, logs?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by holger.s...@googlemail.com on 27 Jan 2011 at 7:06

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> Could it be something to do with 64bit?

Doubt it since there haven't been any issues with building 64 bit 
Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora packages, at least that I'm aware of.

> Do you need some more information, outputs, logs?

Do you have any fonts installed for your user? If you do, try moving them to a 
temp folder and see if maybe one of them is causing the crash. If that's the 
case then it would be nice to know which one.

If that's not the case you can also try an older version like 0.5.6 or 0.5.5, 
just to see if this is something introduced in the latest release or something 
that's been there all along.

I assume you don't have root access to this machine? if you do then it would be 
interesting to see if you have the same result when installed from the standard 
Ubuntu repositories.

Original comment by JerryCasiano on 27 Jan 2011 at 11:06

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Sorry, forgot to say before trying an older version either from source or from 
the Ubuntu repositories make sure you clean out any cache files.

rm ~/.cache/font-manager/font-manager.*

The files created by 0.5.7 will cause older versions to crash.

Original comment by JerryCasiano on 27 Jan 2011 at 11:10

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> Do you have any fonts installed for your user? If you do, try moving them to 
a temp folder and see if maybe one of them is causing the crash. If that's the 
case then it would be nice to know which one.

Yeah, I have a lot of them installed, and yes some of them are not perfect or 
quiet old.
I will figure that out and let you know.

> If that's not the case you can also try an older version like 0.5.6 or 0.5.5, 
just to see if this is something introduced in the latest release or something 
that's been there all along.

I have installed 0.5.6-1 (font-manager) from Ubuntu reps and it runs fine! And 
I like it. So it must have something to do with the new version.

> I assume you don't have root access to this machine? if you do then it would 
be interesting to see if you have the same result when installed from the 
standard Ubuntu repositories.

I have. It's my home computer. :)

> rm ~/.cache/font-manager/font-manager.*

Thanks, I recognised that.

Original comment by holger.s...@googlemail.com on 28 Jan 2011 at 2:02

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I found the beast that caused the crash. I attached it (gothic.ttf). There is 
definitely something wrong it. It lacks some glyphs and the name is wrong. I 
have another font (which is fine), it is the same font. And this one is called 
'ReadableGothic'. So I will delete the wrong one. Nevertheless for 
investigation purposes the attached file could be interesting.

Original comment by holger.s...@googlemail.com on 28 Jan 2011 at 2:40

Attachments:

• gothic.ttf

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Glad you got it working. :-)

If you've never used it before, please keep in mind that it's really only a 
prototype, still a ways to go till 1.0

> Nevertheless for investigation purposes the attached file could be 
interesting.

Absolutely, thank you for finding and attaching it here. 

Original comment by JerryCasiano on 29 Jan 2011 at 12:11

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