GNU bug report logs - #20890
[cairo] crash on startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 33974

Found in versions 26.1.90, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#20890: master 1233bcb: Work around GC+Cairo bug
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:44:04 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 20890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:10:12 +0200
> 
> > If you can tell why FT_List_Find crashes, in terms of Emacs variables
> > and data structures, maybe we can figure out what is going on here.
> > But in any case, I think we should put the same workaround in
> > ftcrfont_close as we did in ftfont_close, because the former calls the
> > latter, and we then risk the situation where we only half-close the
> > font when ftcrfont_close is called from GC.
> 
> That same workaround fixes it on Ubuntu.

Then I think we should install it.
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