it seems to be asking for a specific font or something Here's the stack 0 0x40833990 in nsFontGTK::LoadFont (this=0x87e6260, aCharSet=0x87e58e0, aMetrics=0x87e2b00) at nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp:1304 #1 0x40833a54 in PickASizeAndLoad (aSearch=0xbfffbf3c, aStretch=0x87e5460, aCharSet=0x87e58e0) at nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp:1340 #2 0x408342aa in TryCharSet (aSearch=0xbfffbf3c, aCharSet=0x87e58e0) at nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp:1766 #3 0x40834339 in SearchCharSet (he=0x87e5448, i=1, arg=0xbfffbf3c) at nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp:1791 #4 0x40138271 in ?? () from /home1/alecf/seamonkey/mozilla/dist/bin/libplds3.so #5 0x4083437d in TryFamily (aSearch=0xbfffbf3c, aFamily=0x87e2a28) at nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp:1805 #6 0x408350aa in nsFontMetricsGTK::FindFont (this=0x87e2b00, aChar=97) at nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp:2148 #7 0x40832996 in nsFontMetricsGTK::Init (this=0x87e2b00, aFont=@0x865900c, aContext=0x85753f0) at nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp:154 #8 0x40022be4 in nsFontCache::GetMetricsFor (this=0x85c9408, aFont=@0x865900c, aMetrics=@0xbfffbfec) at nsDeviceContext.cpp:671 #9 0x40021dff in DeviceContextImpl::GetMetricsFor (this=0x85753f0, aFont=@0x865900c, aMetrics=@0xbfffbfec) at nsDeviceContext.cpp:236 #10 0x40d9cae1 in nsPresContext::GetMetricsFor (this=0x85bafa8, aFont=@0x865900c, aResult=0xbfffc1c0) at nsPresContext.cpp:500 #11 0x40c371ef in nsTextFrame::Reflow (this=0x86593a8, aPresContext=@0x85bafa8, aMetrics=@0xbfffc300, aReflowState=@0xbfffc330, aStatus=@0xbfffc6b8) at nsTextFrame.cpp:434 #12 0x40c20a60 in nsLineLayout::ReflowFrame (this=0xbfffc734, aFrame=0x86593a8, aNextRCFrame=0xbfffc490, aReflowStatus=@0xbfffc6b8) at nsLineLayout.cpp:905 #13 0x40c1ca3b in nsInlineFrame::ReflowInlineFrame (this=0x8658f68, aPresContext=0x85bafa8, ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- aReflowState=@0xbfffc5d4, irs=@0xbfffc490, aFrame=0x86593a8, aStatus=@0xbfffc6b8) at nsInlineFrame.cpp:1553 #14 0x40c1c662 in nsInlineFrame::ReflowInlineFrames (this=0x8658f68, aPresContext=0x85bafa8, aReflowState=@0xbfffc5d4, irs=@0xbfffc490, aMetrics=@0xbfffc5a4, aStatus=@0xbfffc6b8) at nsInlineFrame.cpp:1400 (More stack frames follow...) I hope that's enough. This is with gtk 1.2.5, XFree 3.3.5, Gnome 1.0.50

attached potential fix. this page has some weird drawing problems i see, but i don't know that they are related to the font problem.

fix was checked in

Fixed in the Oct 1 build.