[mapserver-users] Mapserver 5.0.3 on Ubuntu 8.10-AMD64 TrueType font problem

[Daniel Morissette]

Martin Koch wrote:
> 
> I used the same mapfiles. Everything works fine appart but when
> I use TrueType fonts for displaying labels I get a '500 Internal Server
> Error'. A default bitmap-font works well, but not the truetype font's I
> refer to in my fontset.
> 
> I checked all my path's tripple, compared both servers for different
> right's settings, apache2 settings and installed packages. I reinstalled
> dependencies as libfreetype6 but still 'no go' with truetype.
> 

I'd say check the paths inside your fontset again. I found and fixed a 
very similar issue in v5.2 earlier this week, and it was caused by the 
font file not being found. I would not be surprised if the same issue 
existed in 5.0 as well:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2973

Another hint: set CONFIG MS_ERRORFILE "stderr" in your mapfile and look 
for any error in the Apache error_log. In the case of the ticket above, 
the "font not found" error was not trapped properly but it would have 
showed up in the error_log before the crash (unless stderr buffering 
would have prevented it from getting to the log file before the crash).

Daniel
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