Bug#261783: gdmgreeter doesn't handle unreadable fonts gracefully

[Josselin Mouette]

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reassign 261783 libfontconfig1
severity 261783 normal
retitle 261783 doesn't fall back when default fonts are unreadable
tag 261783 upstream
thanks

Le mer 28/07/2004 =C3=A0 08:50, Matthew Sanderson a =C3=A9crit :
> Summary: GDMGreeter does not gracefully handle the condition whereby it i=
s trying to open a font file, but=20
> the font file is not readable.

This has nothing to do with gdmgreeter, all applications using
fontconfig will do that.

> I have put a number of symlinks in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/commercial/,=
 pointing to TrueType font files=20
> stored in a different filesystem, namely in '/dosc/winnt/Fonts'. This may=
 or may not be a good idea; for=20
> the purposes of this bugreport it does not matter.

Of course it does matter. The program fails when you deliberately fuck
up your system. This is at best a normal bug.

Regards,
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