Font issue produces segfault

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

Several days ago I made a modification to the fedora 19 font system (installed freetype-freeworld) to get M$ new fonts to render better. I also installed several “new” fonts. Now Ardour cannot open or create a session. the following messages are produced:

Sep  5 11:59:17 da kernel: [ 7255.682661] ardour-3.4[5944]: segfault at 8 ip 00007ff7ecde523e sp 00007fff4c6b58a0 error 4 in libfontconfig.so.1[7ff7ecdc6000+3d000]
Sep  5 11:59:19 da abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2013-09-05-11:59:18-5944' creation detected
Sep  5 11:59:19 da abrt[5971]: Saved core dump of pid 5944 (/opt/Ardour-3.4-dbg/bin/ardour-3.4) to /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2013-09-05-11:59:18-5944 (93687808 bytes)
Sep  5 11:59:19 da abrtd: Can't load public GPG key /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
Sep  5 11:59:19 da abrtd: Executable '/opt/Ardour-3.4-dbg/bin/ardour-3.4' doesn't belong to any package and ProcessUnpackaged is set to 'no'


Should I just uninstall freetype-freeworld?

Dan
#2

Sorry, I needed to provide more specific system information.

uname command
Linux xxx.xxxxxx 3.10.10-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 29 19:05:45 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

free command
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 6011476 2655176 3356300 0 324160 1099464
-/+ buffers/cache: 1231552 4779924
Swap: 8093692 0 8093692

file command
/opt/Ardour-3.4-dbg/bin/ardour-3.4: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped

locate command
/opt/Ardour-3.4-dbg/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.7.0
/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1.7.0

I have erased all freetype packages, disabled many fonts and rebooted. Still get segfaults.

#3

If you use ardour from ardour.org, all necessary libraries are included and it does not use your system font libraries. It does use your system fonts, and this is a known problem with some versions of fedora (and a couple of other distributions).

It might be helpful to file a bug containing a backtrace (see http://ardour.org/debugging_ardour for instructions on how to generate one). and then i’d try uninstalling freetype-freeworld to see if that helps.

#4

Thanks for your reply. I ran it with the debugger and found the problem. An error in the following font config file seems to create problems.

DEBUG ERROR OUTPUT

Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number

I deleted the file, 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf, as recommended in an Arch Linux post with similar problems. Ardour starts fine now. This is good as I just got a project composing music for short videos. I’ve been wanting to try this out.

Thanks for your help and work on a great audio recording tool!
Dan