[tex-live] mkluatexfontdb segfaults when scanning empty.ttf

[Khaled Hosny]

Thanks.

It looks like a luatex (engine) bug, submitted to luatex bug tracker:
http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=468

Regards,
 Khaled

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hi Khaled,
> 
> thanks for noticing. Attaching the missing empty.ttf.
> 
> Regards,
> Jindrich
> 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:03:14PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:31:33AM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm forwarding this bug report message to you.
> > > 
> > > Hope that helps,
> > > Jindrich
> > > 
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking at uos.de> -----
> > > 
> > > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:25:14 +0200
> > > From: Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking at uos.de>
> > > To: jnovy at redhat.com
> > > Subject: mkluatexfontdb segfaults when scanning empty.ttf
> > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2
> > > 
> > > Hi Jindrich,
> > > 
> > > since TeX Live 2010 isn't officially added to Fedora yet, I don't file
> > > a Bugzilla ticket but bother you directly. :)
> > > 
> > > When the attached TrueType font "empty.ttf" is present in one of the
> > > scanned font directories, the LuaTeX utility "mkluatexfontdb" crashes
> > > with a segfault (using the latest TeX Live 2010 build from your yum
> > > repo). This empty font is obviously an exotic case but it's a valid
> > > TTF file that should be handled properly.
> > > 
> > > Maybe you can forward this issue to the proper TeX Live or LuaTeX
> > > developers.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Martin
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>   http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/
> > > Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá,
> > > kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl.
> > > --- Jan Werich
> > 
> > Looks like the font was lost during forward, without the font there is
> > little one can do.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >  Khaled
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Khaled Hosny
> >  Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
> >  Free font developer
> 
> -- 
> Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>   http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/
> Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá,
> kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl.
> --- Jan Werich



-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer