Re: Second 4.6.0 release candidate

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:38:10AM +0000, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote:
>
>> The second release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available.
>> The source tarball can be found at:
>> 
>>   ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.902.tar.bz2
>> 
>> This version marks the beginning of the intensive testing phase for this
>> release.  Please report problems/success, etc here.
>
>Is there a broken (italic) font ? 
>mozilla and firefox keep getting wedged in tight loops.
>
>	firefox file:/ 
>is fine, but if I view source (ctrl-U) the process spins (cpu 99%+, 
>strace and ltrace show nothing, process does respond to signals).
>
>I started seeing this when I upgraded to XFree86-4.5.99.902
>(from CVS head). Previous version was probably six weeks ago.

While looking into this, I did find a bug in fontconfig where memory
could get freed twice.  I don't see the same symptoms, but this problem
does happen in code paths that get used when slanting a font.  I'm
committing the patch now.  Let me know if it makes a difference for you.

David
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David Dawes                                     X-Oz Technologies
www.XFree86.org/~dawes                          www.x-oz.com
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