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Both alacritty and kitty would spin without opening at 99% CPU after upgrading freetype2 and lib32-freetype2 to 2.14.0. I didn't get very far with strace but just followed my recent upgrade chain.
To fix:
I downgraded
```
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/freetype2-2.13.3-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-freetype2-2.13.3-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
```
Then ignored:
```
sudo sed -i 's/^#IgnorePkg.*=/IgnorePkg = freetype2 lib32-freetype2/' /etc/pacman.conf
```
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https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/freet … nt-1039192
Commented in the aur thread ^
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Same issue here, and your solution fixed the problem. Thanks!
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I haven't really delved deep into what exactly was happening, but I use iosevka (or its subvariants aile and etoile) as my standard font across KDE, konsole, firefox and chrome/chromium. Immediately after the package upgrade, I couldn't open any new windows. Then, after a reboot, I couldn't login to plasma anymore, though I could get into a tty (I use ly as my display manager - so, no issues there, at least). Reverting to the old package fixed it. So, it looks like all GUIs that depend on freetype break if you use iosevka.
Just putting it out there in case someone else comes looking after a broken update.
Last edited by Anonymonous (2025-09-10 11:13:58)
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I also have issues after upgrading from freetype2 2.13.3-3 to 2.14.0-1
For me applications that depend on freetype2 (e.g. libreoffice and emacs) completely freeze after startup and can only be killed. After downgrading to 2.13.3-3 everything is working again.
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2.14.0-2 seems to fix it!
Also why does nobody use the issue tracker? https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/4
https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/issues/2863
Last edited by flying sheep (2025-09-10 16:29:51)
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