8:16 a.m.
Dear developers,
The latest build (#5345) keeps scanning the active font folders at each
start up and quits with an error before ending it. I had to revert to #5342
to get rid of this behaviour.
Pi4 / RISC OS 5.29 (19-Feb-21) and some large unicode fonts.
Switching the unicode fonts off avoids the error, but NetSurf will still
keep scanning the fonts at each new boot.
Kind regards,
Paul
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12:36 p.m.
In message <59f02c897fPaul(a)sprie.nl>
Paul Sprangers <Paul(a)sprie.nl> wrote:
Dear developers,
The latest build (#5345) keeps scanning the active font folders at each
start up and quits with an error before ending it. I had to revert to #5342
to get rid of this behaviour.
Pi4 / RISC OS 5.29 (19-Feb-21) and some large unicode fonts. Switching the
unicode fonts off avoids the error, but NetSurf will still keep scanning
the fonts at each new boot.
I attempted to reproduce this fault, but, for me, #5345 scanned the fonts
once and once only. Neither restarting NS, nor rebooting the machine,
resulted in the fonts being rescanned.
Paul, did you update your !System and !Boot from the #5345 zip?
David
2:10 p.m.
David Higton wrote:
Paul, did you update your !System and !Boot from the #5345 zip?
No, I didn't. But now that I have, it makes no difference.
John-Mark Bell wrote:
Please send me (off-list) a log file showing the error, and any and
all
fonts that it cannot process.
The font that it cannot process is UniFont. When I remove that one from the
font directory, NetSurf behaves nicely and won't scan the fonts next time
that it is started. I will send you the log file privately. Do you wish to
receive the font in question as well?
Kind regards,
Paul
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https://riscos.sprie.nl
2:50 p.m.
On 29/05/2022 19:10, Paul Sprangers wrote:
> Please send me (off-list) a log file showing the error, and any and all
> fonts that it cannot process.
The font that it cannot process is UniFont. When I remove that one from the
font directory, NetSurf behaves nicely and won't scan the fonts next time
that it is started. I will send you the log file privately. Do you wish to
receive the font in question as well?
Yes.
J.
12:37 p.m.
On 29/05/2022 13:16, Paul Sprangers wrote:
Dear developers,
The latest build (#5345) keeps scanning the active font folders at each
start up and quits with an error before ending it. I had to revert to #5342
to get rid of this behaviour.
Please send me (off-list) a log file showing the error, and any and all
fonts that it cannot process.
Pi4 / RISC OS 5.29 (19-Feb-21) and some large unicode fonts.
Switching the unicode fonts off avoids the error, but NetSurf will still
keep scanning the fonts at each new boot.
If the scan completes, then it will not scan again unless one or more of
the following is the case:
1. The installed fonts change
2. The cache file in !Scrap does not exist
Note that the cache file has moved in recent versions of NetSurf so, if
you have something that cleans out scrap on boot, it will need to be
updated to preserve the RUfl cache.
J.
7:47 a.m.
On 29/05/2022 17:37, John-Mark Bell wrote:
On 29/05/2022 13:16, Paul Sprangers wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> The latest build (#5345) keeps scanning the active font folders at each
> start up and quits with an error before ending it. I had to revert to
> #5342
> to get rid of this behaviour.
Please send me (off-list) a log file showing the error, and any and all
fonts that it cannot process.
To close the loop here: in this case, the issue was not with any
individual font. Instead, it was caused by the presence of more than 255
unique fonts on Paul's system -- a single code path failed to properly
account for this with the result being corrupted memory and undefined
behaviour. This is fixed in build #5346.
J.
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