Bug#429834: gnome-about crashes with font error in Debian Sid

[Prakash Jose Kokkattu]

Package: gnome-about
Version: 2.18.2-1
Severity: important

Hello,
when running from places menu>about GNOME it crashes at the point where
it shows the credit  names of developers!.I use a custom font(Tahoma).
I have already reported this as a bug in GNOME Bugzilla(
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449243 ) 
but i feel this crash is more to do with packages related in Debian.I
have attached strace output while gnome-about crashed at
http://pastebin.ca/578994
the stack trace is posted below :
I tried gdb for stack trace.below is the output.
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prakash at jaguar:~$ gdb /usr/bin/gnome-about
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Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-about 
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(gnome-about:3605): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly
output.
the offending font is 'Tahoma Bold 0'

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1225898320 (LWP 3605)]
0xb7de6430 in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 1 (Thread -1225898320 (LWP 3605)):
#0  0xb7de6430 in pthread_mutex_lock () from
/lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#1  0xb757702f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#2  0x000000a4 in ?? ()
#3  0xb786d120 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#4  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#5  0xbfd9d138 in ?? ()
#6  0x084c47d8 in ?? ()
#7  0x000000a4 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000008 in ?? ()
#9  0xb75c0c44 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#10 0xbfd9d38e in ?? ()
#11 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()
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at the end about-gnome crashed. 
                           regards,
							                                                      Prakash  Jose  Kokkattu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-pjk1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-about depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.6-0exp2     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.13.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.18.0-4      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.18.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.11.2-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libxml2                    2.6.29.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library

gnome-about recommends no packages.

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