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Message #79927
[Bug 1259510] Re: fontconfig segmentation fault during package installation
To solve this error when upgrading 14.04->14.10 I ran:
$ dpkg -D40 -i ~/Downloads/fontconfig_2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb
Then I notice this file caused the error, so I seek the packge owning it:
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts-core/UnBatangBold.ttf
I then remove that package:
$ sudo apt-get remove fonts-unfonts-core
I know resume the pakcages install:
$ sudo apt-get install -f
which works ok now.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1259510
Title:
fontconfig segmentation fault during package installation
Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
During update, while doing post-install processing, apt-get reports
that the process died with a SIGSEGV, and /var/log/fontconfig.log has
only one line: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".
I realize that this is not enough information, but I don't know what
other information would be relevant (and/or how to obtain it), so I'd
appreciate it if anyone could tell me what other information about my
system or what other logs I need to add.
A few days earlier, I had a problem where I couldn't log in, and it
turned out to be a segfault in libfreetype.so. After I had copied
several fonts from a Windows partition, fc-cache crashed and that
seems to be what caused the segfaults in FreeType. I realized that the
fonts I copied from the Windows partition had permissions 640, so they
weren't readable when I ran fc-cache from my regular user account.
After I chmod'ed them to 644 and ran fc-cache, the FreeType segfaults
stopped and I was able to log back into X, but ever since then,
whenever I try to update fontconfig, it segfaults in the post-install
step and apt-get reports one package "not fully installed" (or
something to that effect).
I don't know if both problems are related. I just mentioned the fc-
cache/libfreetype issue because it seemed odd to me that two font-
related packages would start segfaulting within days of each other.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: fontconfig 2.11.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-5.13-generic 3.12.2
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-5-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Dec 10 09:12:19 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-01 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20131130)
SourcePackage: fontconfig
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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