Hi, we have recently switched Mandriva cooker to fontconfig 2.3.92 and I've got a lot of bug report on a reproducible bug when configuration file is invalid : create ~/.fonts.conf with the following data : <?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>full</const> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> And you'll get nice crash when starting any application using fontconfig :) BTW, running valgrind with this particular config file is causing a lot of invalid memory access warning in valgrind. -- Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Mandriva