Docky

Crash when using Terminus font

Bug #1317706 reported by razish on 2014-05-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1294699: Xubuntu desktop crashes in call to cairo after setting fixed-width bitmap (pcf) GTK font. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Docky	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-terminus
Change default system font to Terminus (any size), I'm using Settings Manager -> Appearance -> Fonts on XFCE/Xubuntu
If Docky is running, it will crash immediately. If Docky is not running, it will fail to start.

Docky version: 2.2.0 Release
Distro in use: Xubuntu 14.04 (uname -a: Linux textop 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
X version: 1.15.1
Video card: Intel HD 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
XFCE version: 4.10
Mono version: Mono JIT compiler version 3.2.8 (Debian 3.2.8+dfsg-4ubuntu1)

Full output log is attached.

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razish (mrrazish) wrote on 2014-05-09:

Full output log when crash occurs Edit (9.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Jason (xavier32) wrote on 2014-05-23:

I can verify that this happens, but it's much more broad than the way it's written here. It looks like any bitmap fonts will cause a crash that includes "Assertion `!scaled_font->cache_frozen' in the log. This is a very frustrating problem.