2.6.10 xfs segfault on boot startup?

2.6.10 xfs segfault on boot startup?

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

I just rebooted to a "still got that new car smell" fresh 2.6.10, and 
this went by on the boot screen while it was starting the various 
services in init.d:

Starting xfs: /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2377 Segmentation fault      
ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale
/etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2404 Segmentation fault      ttmkfdir 
-d . -o fonts.scale

I had installed some new ttf fonts over the last day or so, and had 
used them with the beta OOo-1.9-xxx before rebooting from 
2.6.10-V0.33-04, but when I did a 'service xfs restart' just before 
seeing if startx worked (it did obviousy) no further errors were 
output, and it was running when I did that, so its apparently not 
repeatable.

But it was a bit puzzling.  Anybody have an idea?  Self-healing 
software, the Holy Grail...

Merry Christmas wishes to all that celebrate it on this list.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Re: 2.6.10 xfs segfault on boot startup?

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:42 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I just rebooted to a "still got that new car smell" fresh 2.6.10, and 
> this went by on the boot screen while it was starting the various 
> services in init.d:
> 
> Starting xfs: /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2377 Segmentation fault      
> ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale
> /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2404 Segmentation fault      ttmkfdir 
> -d . -o fonts.scale

If that was a kernel problem you would probably have an Oops.

Lee

Re: 2.6.10 xfs segfault on boot startup?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 24 December 2004 19:50, Lee Revell wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:42 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> I just rebooted to a "still got that new car smell" fresh 2.6.10,
>> and this went by on the boot screen while it was starting the
>> various services in init.d:
>>
>> Starting xfs: /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2377 Segmentation
>> fault ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale
>> /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2404 Segmentation fault     
>> ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale
>
>If that was a kernel problem you would probably have an Oops.
>
>Lee

The closest thing I can see in the logs is a few of these:

Dec 24 19:27:00 coyote Xprt_33: lpstat: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused
Dec 24 19:27:01 coyote Xprt_33: Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts, removing from list!
Dec 24 19:27:01 coyote Xprt_33: Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/msfonts, removing from list!
Dec 24 19:27:01 coyote Xprt_33: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, removing from list!
Dec 24 19:27:01 coyote Xprt_33: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2, removing from list!
Dec 24 19:27:01 coyote Xprt_33: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list!
Dec 24 19:27:01 coyote Xprt_33: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, removing from list!
Dec 24 19:27:01 coyote Xprt_33: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util, removing from list!

But, this isn't unusual, its just telling me I've been moving fonts
around.  Someday, when I've got nothing better to do, I'm going to
clean house in whatever font list its using by combining them all
into one fonts dir, and then lndir that to all the other places
the various programs ordinarily look for fonts.  Frankly its a
mess, possibly partly of my own doing because for a while I actually
believed that I could just drop them into ~/fonts and they would work.

Sure, and pigs fly too...  With enough dynamite maybe.

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
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[OT] Re: 2.6.10 xfs segfault on boot startup?

[Mathieu Segaud]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> disait dernièrement que :

> Greetings all;
>
> I just rebooted to a "still got that new car smell" fresh 2.6.10, and 
> this went by on the boot screen while it was starting the various 
> services in init.d:
>
> Starting xfs: /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2377 Segmentation fault      
> ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale
> /etc/rc3.d/S90xfs: line 137:  2404 Segmentation fault      ttmkfdir 
> -d . -o fonts.scale

it is a userland problem. seems like you have some garbage in your fonts dir.

>
> I had installed some new ttf fonts over the last day or so, and had 
> used them with the beta OOo-1.9-xxx before rebooting from 
> 2.6.10-V0.33-04, but when I did a 'service xfs restart' just before 
> seeing if startx worked (it did obviousy) no further errors were 
> output, and it was running when I did that, so its apparently not 
> repeatable.

I had this message when emerging xorg-x11 on my gentoo box. ttmkfdir does
not seem robust enough when upgrading fonts.

> But it was a bit puzzling.  Anybody have an idea?  Self-healing 
> software, the Holy Grail...
>
> Merry Christmas wishes to all that celebrate it on this list.

thx, merry xmas

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