Re: [gnukeyring-discuss] Font problems with kyocera 6035 [was: First prerelease for keyring-1.2 is out.]

[Jochen H. <Joc...@In...>]

On Wednesday, 24. April 2002 20:55, John-David Childs wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 09:57, Jay Thrash wrote:
> > I recently started using a Kyocera 6035 as my main Palm OS
> > device, so I was quite eager to download 1.2-pre1 since it
> > includes the missing encryption libraries needed to run Keyring
> > on this device.  After using it a few times, I've run into a
> > weird problem - for some reason, the "normal" font gets replaced
> > with a much larger font.  The font is so large that I cannot read
> > most of the form fields because all that's displayed is the top
> > half of the characters.  Sometimes, the switch from normal to
> > large font occurs while I'm entering my password - half the
> > password is normal and half is large!  Weird!  Exiting the
> > program and restarting it usually fixes the problem.
> 
> I can confirm the exact same symptoms on my Kyocera 6035...with the
> added bonus that as I was trying to figure out exact conditions
> when font change occurs (or can be reset back to normal (i.e. by
> clicking somewhere else on the screen), my palm locked up hard and
> had to be reset.

This symptoms sound very weird. I use user defined fonts for 
passwords and accounts, but I have never seen this effect before. 
However, I have neither a Kyocera 6035 nor a rom image for that.

My first guess is that some random data is overwritten. However, I 
tested keyring under pose-3.5, which should detect memory leaks or 
random corruption, and it didn't report any problems with keyring or 
the SSL libs.  

> I wonder if the included SSL stuff conflicts with the libraries
> from TGSSH which were also on my palm.

The libraries included are unmodified versions from pilotSSLeay-2.01. 
If TGSSH uses them or has the SSL code statically linked there should 
be no problems.

> Jay Thrash wrote:
> >
> > I'm running Palm OS 3.5.3.  I tried in vain to reproduce the
> > problem within POSE so I could post a screen shot.

Did you try to download the rom image from your phone? Pose includes 
a small Palm application to do that.  It may be a bug that happens 
only with this particular ROM.

  Jochen