Add Chinese Fonts to UK build = Winlogon crash !!!!!

[Guest]

We've been happily (mostly) building images for 2 years now which work with Uk English or other US/European language locales. [ XPe SP1 development environment plus Hotfixes
Now we've hit on a MAJOR problem - by simply adding the 4 Chinese (Trad/Simplified) fonts plus the dependencies (2 cgaXXwoa.fon and 2 egaXXwoa.fon) files (and nothing else!) our built image crashes Winlogon (Application error - instruction at 0x719b7931 referenced memory at 0x00550011) which then shuts the system down (blue screen)

This is the latest symptom in a series of problems caused by (we believe) the MUI Chinese components - earlier we used the full set of locales,fonts and codepages for Chinese and found we could not launch CMD.exe and post FBA Installs e.g MSDE 2000 failed (in this case with an exception in ADhlp]

This is very serious as we wish to show Chinese Fonts from within IE on our product and our customer has already seen the same facility working on standard XP Pro ..

Can anyone offer any advice

(We've eliminated typos and missing elements - there is nothing inherently wrong with our build!)

 

[Andy Allred [MS]]

It's not clear which fonts you're referring to when you say "the 4 Chinese
(Trad/Simplified) fonts". Exactly *which* 4?

I did look at the other 4 you refer to for the cga and ega fonts, and they
have no other file/reg resources, so those probably aren't your problem but
the other 4 you're referring to earlier. Go look at the reg resources of
those 4 components in your config and see if perhaps they are stomping on a
reg key that is causing a conflict, like in the GREInitialize key or
something along those lines.

Andy
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We've been happily (mostly) building images for 2 years now which work

with Uk English or other US/European language locales. [ XPe SP1 development
environment plus Hotfixes]

Now we've hit on a MAJOR problem - by simply adding the 4 Chinese

(Trad/Simplified) fonts plus the dependencies (2 cgaXXwoa.fon and 2
egaXXwoa.fon) files (and nothing else!) our built image crashes Winlogon
(Application error - instruction at 0x719b7931 referenced memory at
0x00550011) which then shuts the system down (blue screen).

This is the latest symptom in a series of problems caused by (we believe)

the MUI Chinese components - earlier we used the full set of locales,fonts
and codepages for Chinese and found we could not launch CMD.exe and post FBA
Installs e.g MSDE 2000 failed (in this case with an exception in ADhlp].

This is very serious as we wish to show Chinese Fonts from within IE on

our product and our customer has already seen the same facility working on
standard XP Pro ...

Can anyone offer any advice ?

(We've eliminated typos and missing elements - there is nothing inherently

wrong with our build!)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the response Andy ..

The 4 font elements are
Fonts: Chinese ( Simplified ) bitmap & Truetyp
Fonts: Chinese ( Simplified ) font substitution
Fonts: Chinese ( Traditional) bitmap & Truetyp
Fonts: Chinese ( Traditional ) font substitutions

and yes ... the GREInitialise key registry changes are part of the problem.

 

[Guest]

GREInitialise key changes Terminal font used by CMD.exe and snetcfg.exe - causing them to fail to initialise.
No Network = no Server service = no MSDE ...

Seems a bit sloppy ?

 

[Guest]

More XPe strangeness - use of Chinese Trad/Simplified fonts plus Locales (Chinese - all subtypes) modifies IMM registry value - this causes Flash ActiveX control host windows to lose topmost status (at least!) ... set it back to value used on US/UK only system - fine again ...