css - Failed to decode downloaded font, OTS parsing error: invalid version tag + rails 4

Question

I am doing assets pre-compile, and running the application in production mode. After compilation when I load the my index page I got followings warnings in the chrome console:

Failed to decode downloaded font: http://localhost:3000/fonts/ionicons.ttf?v=2.0.0
prospects:1 OTS parsing error: invalid version tag
Failed to decode downloaded font: http://localhost:3000/fonts/ionicons.woff?v=2.0.0
prospects:1 OTS parsing error: invalid version tag

The issue is its not loading icons instead of that its showing squares.

we used the custom fonts and the code is:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'icomoon';
  src: font-url('icomoon.eot');
  src: font-url('icomoon.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
       font-url('icomoon.ttf') format('truetype'),
       font-url('icomoon.woff') format('woff'),
       font-url('icomoon.svg#icomoon') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

I don't know what is missing from my end . I searched a lot and also tried solution but not got any success.In development mode its working fine but don't know why its showing square in the production mode.

Answer 1

I got the exact same error, and in my case it turned out to be because of a wrong path for the @font-face declaration. The web inspector never complained with a 404 since the dev server we're using (live-server) was configured to serve up the default index.html on any 404:s. Without knowing any details about your setup, this could be a likely culprit.