Bug ID: JDK-8188030 AWT java apps fail to start when some minimal fonts are present

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During initialisation of the fonts, there is a fixed number of fonts to retrieve that depends on the names defined in FontConfigManager.fontConfigNames.

The native code asks fontconfig the best match for those fonts, but in certain cases, namely when only CFF fonts are installed fontconfig (even in addition to the minimum mandatory Type 1 ones), fontconfig returns the CFF as "best match".

This happens, for example, when requesting a font of type "sans:regular:roman". CFF are valid fonts for fontconfig (and are effectively Type 1 OpenType fonts) so the match is registered, but then the actual set returned by fontconfig contains only CFF fonts that are then discarded, thus causing an array of 0 size for "sans:regular:roman", that later on causes an ArrayIndexOutOfBound when this array is accessed in java code:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
	at sun.font.CompositeStrike.getStrikeForSlot(CompositeStrike.java:75)
	at sun.font.CompositeStrike.getFontMetrics(CompositeStrike.java:93)
	at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.initMatrixAndMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:359)
	at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.<init>(FontDesignMetrics.java:350)
	at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:302)
	at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:1113)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1626)
	at ...

On RHEL 7.4 for example, with STIX fonts and the following fonts:

xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-9.el7.noarch
stix-fonts-1.1.0-5.el7.noarch

you can see what  fc-match -f "sans:regular:roman" -sv returns, which is similar to what the code in the JDK does (output edited):

Pattern has 34 elts (size 48)
	family: "STIX"(s)
	fontformat: "CFF"(w)
	postscriptname: "STIX-Regular"(w)

Pattern has 34 elts (size 48)
	family: "Cantarell"(s)
	fontformat: "CFF"(w)
	postscriptname: "Cantarell-Regular"(w)

Pattern has 34 elts (size 48)
	family: "STIX"(s)
	fontformat: "CFF"(w)
	postscriptname: "STIX-Bold"(w)

Pattern has 34 elts (size 48)
	family: "STIX"(s)
	fontformat: "CFF"(w)
	postscriptname: "STIX-Italic"(w)

Pattern has 34 elts (size 48)
	family: "STIX"(s)
	fontformat: "CFF"(w)
	postscriptname: "STIX-BoldItalic"(w)

Review: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2017-September/008573.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2017-September/008576.html
19-10-2017
I'm not sure how to attach a file in Jira, anyway, here is a simple reproducer: // see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45569367/upgrade-rhel-from-7-3-to-7-4-arrayindexoutofboundsexception-in-sun-font-composi import java.awt.; import java.awt.font.; public class TestJava { public static void main(String[] args) { String []fontFamilies = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailableFontFamilyNames(); for (String font : fontFamilies) { System.err.println(font); } Font font = new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 12); //Font font = new Font("STIX", Font.PLAIN, 12); FontRenderContext frc = new FontRenderContext(null, false, false); TextLayout layout = new TextLayout("\ude00", font, frc); layout.getCaretShapes(0); System.out.println(layout); } }
27-09-2017
Proposed fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/8188030/webrev.01/
27-09-2017
You can reference the following bug report on Red Hat bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484079
27-09-2017

Duplicate :	JDK-8233828 - Add OpenType CFF support in JDK 7
Relates :	JDK-8209672 - Oracle JDK 8 equivalent fix for JDK-8188030: AIOOBE in font manager init