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From the KDE bugtrack:

------- Additional Comment #1 From Stephan Kulow 2006-01-24 13:36 -------
sorry, the bug lies in your fontconfig. Check the fontconfig.org devel archive for a patch, I do not have it handy atm

Any ideas what to do? Will this be fixed in the next fontconfig?

What version of fontconfig do you use? fontconfig 2.3.2-3 contains the patch the KDE devs are talking about.

Name : fontconfig
Version : 2.3.2-3
Groups : None
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
URL : http://www.fontconfig.org/release/
License : None
Architecture : i686
Size : 704283
Build Date : Tue Dec 20 23:50:46 2005 UTC
Install Date : Wed Dec 28 08:51:24 2005 UTC
Install Script : Yes
Reason: : installed as a dependency for another package
Provides : None
Depends On : expat freetype2 zlib
Required By : cairo libxft ttf-bitstream-vera
Conflicts With : None
Description : A library for configuring and customizing font access

Apparently it wasn't fixed.

Forgot: could you please post in the KDE bug thread that the said patch was applied and that the backtrace was run against the already-patched fontconfig?

please try new qt, it contains updated patch from kde.org

Nothing changed :( Everything as reported in the KDE bug tree. The same issues appear with a clean KDE profile (created a different user). Also removing TTF fonts and leaving only the MS ones doesn't help.

Guess I'll have to end up reinstalling Arch :(

Current packages:
Name : qt
Version : 3.3.5-8
Groups : None
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
URL : http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html
License : None
Architecture : i686
Size : 27084371
Build Date : Tue Jan 31 12:10:02 2006 UTC
Install Date : Tue Jan 31 17:01:22 2006 UTC

Name : kdebase
Version : 3.5.1-1
Groups : kde
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
URL : http://www.kde.org
License : None
Architecture : i686
Size : 58691617
Build Date : Sun Jan 22 12:31:34 2006 UTC
Install Date : Sat Jan 28 12:11:01 2006 UTC

Name : fontconfig
Version : 2.3.93-3
Groups : None
Packager : Arch Linux (http://www.archlinux.org)
URL : http://www.fontconfig.org/release/
License : None
Architecture : i686
Size : 702384
Build Date : śro sty 25 09:48:40 2006 UTC
Install Date : Wed Jan 25 09:49:58 2006 UTC

hm what comes to my mind... run fc-cache perhaps only your cache is affected

b4f1b000-b4f38000 r--p 00000000 08:05 34350 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/lucon.ttf
are you sure that it is not that font that causes the errors?
EDIT:
try to put a # in front of your ttf fonts in xorg.conf if it works then, it's probably something wrong in your ttf setup.

Hmm, you're using an unofficial version of fontconfig. It's a development snapshot that doesn't have the patch we applied to the one in our repository. This one is the cause of your problem, as the KDE devs state in your bugreport.

Right. Success. :)

To clarify a bit: When I was reporting this bug I WAS running fontconfig 2.3.2-3, the patched version JGC was talking about. To be honest, I sync my setup to the [testing] repo each 2-3 days so I was running the latest arch stuff. It was later that I tried out the devel build, following the suggestion from the KDE bug thread that everything was ok with KDE 3.5.1 and fontconfig 2.3.93.

I then installed KDE 3.5.1 and the same problem accured with fontconfig 2.3.93. Haven't bothered to check the testing fontconfig package, since I thought that it after all wasn't an issue with it (remember: KDE 3.5.0 + fontconfig 2.3.2-3 were giving me the issue). I tried numerous ways around it. Deleting fonts, removing paths, new KDE profiles etc. Nothing helped.

10 minutes ago I did pacman -S fontconfig and reverted to 2.3.2-3. To my amaze it worked, the mailing list archive displayed without problems, with all TTF fonts in all glory.

It didn't work for KDE 3.5.0, but it does for KDE 3.5.1. It might as well be related to the new patched version of QT Tobias has put into the repo.

Now running:

Name : fontconfig
Version : 2.3.2-3
Groups : None
Packager : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
URL : http://www.fontconfig.org/release/
License : None
Architecture : i686
Size : 704283
Build Date : Tue Dec 20 23:50:46 2005 UTC
Install Date : Tue Jan 31 18:30:56 2006 UTC

Name : qt
Version : 3.3.5-8
Groups : None
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
URL : http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html
License : None
Architecture : i686
Size : 27084371
Build Date : Tue Jan 31 12:10:02 2006 UTC
Install Date : Tue Jan 31 17:01:22 2006 UTC

Name : kdebase
Version : 3.5.1-1
Groups : kde
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
URL : http://www.kde.org
License : None
Architecture : i686
Size : 58691617
Build Date : Sun Jan 22 12:31:34 2006 UTC
Install Date : Sat Jan 28 12:11:01 2006 UTC

All works fine. Thanks guys :)