No problem here on Fedora release 7 (Moonshine). Output: 
The version of Tk is '804.027001'
The version of Tk::Font is '4.004'
$VAR1 = "-family";
$VAR2 = "Nimbus Roman No9 L";
$VAR3 = "-size";
$VAR4 = -16;
$VAR5 = "-weight";
$VAR6 = "bold";
$VAR7 = "-slant";
$VAR8 = "roman";
$VAR9 = "-underline";
$VAR10 = 0;
$VAR11 = "-overstrike";
$VAR12 = 0;
$VAR13 = [
  [
    "Nimbus Roman No9 L",
    "urw",
    "Unknown"
  ],
  [
    "Nimbus Roman No9 L",
    "urw",
    "Unknown"
  ],
  [
    "Liberation Serif",
    "unknown",
    "Unknown"
  ],
...more arrays...
];
Creating button 1...
Creating button 2...
Creating button 3...

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Are you missing a font package? (Hint: urw-fonts ;-)

--shmem 

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                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re: Tk fonts crash on Fedora by shmem
in thread Tk fonts crash on Fedora by wulvrine

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