[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#656359: Bug#656359: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#656359: Segfault when pressing modifier/arrow keys if more than 4 points are selected

[Khaled Hosny]

I use FontForge extensively I never encountered this, and generally it
is less crashy than it used to be. May be it is 64bit specific bug?

Regards,
 Khaled

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:20:57PM +0800, john knightley wrote:
> Dear Khaled
> 
> the segmentation fault is somewhat erratic for example moving around the letter
> g does not crash but moving say a character at uf8000 does - in some cases
> starting a new font, making it full unicode  going to a higher point and simply
> pressing element is sufficient to crash. Even if somewhat difficult to describe
> there is indeed a serious problem here. I have one machine running ubuntu 9.10
> which I have been doing all my fontforge work on because when I update to
> ubuntu 10.4 I noticed this bug, which has remained though I have updated to
> 10.10 .
> 
> Over the past week I have been preparing to do a fontforge training session in
> Feb and I myself thought that install rather than updating to Maverick solved
> the problem because I only tested 'g' .
> 
> Regards
> John
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:35:26AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>     > Hi fontforge folks--
>     >
>     > over on Debian, we've just gotten http://bugs.debian.org/656359, which
>     > appears to contain a reproducible segfault.
>     >
>     > Some folks have suggested that it may be due to more recent versions of
>     > dependent libraries, but i haven't been able to track it down in more
>     > detail, i'm afraid.
>     >
>     > From Theppitak's original report, a recipe to produce the crash:
>     >
>     > Steps to reproduce:
>     > - Start fontforge and create a new font.
>     > - Randomly choose a first glyph to edit.
>     > - Draw splines with at least 5 points.
>     > - Select up to 4 points and press a modifier or arrow key. It won't
>     crash.
>     > - Select at least 5 points and press a modifier or arrow key. It will
>     >   always crash.
>     >
>     > Any suggestions?
> 
>     I can't reproduce this with fontforge built from git master running
>     under Ubuntu 10.04.
> 
>     Regards,
>      Khaled
> 
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