[XeTeX] Segmentation fault error in xdvipdfmx 0.7.8 with CharisSIL 4.106

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

For what it's worth, I also tried to reproduce the error. I modified the sample2e.tex file. I added:

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont{Charis SIL}

I also downloaded the font from the SIL homepage. Result: no problems.

PC: Epson Endeavor, Intel Core 2 Duo
OS: Gentoo linux (uname -m :: i686)
xelatex: This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009)

Cheers,
Wilfred

Segmentation fault: as far as I know, this basically means that an application is trying to use a part of the memory it was not assigned. This can happen if arrays are indexed erroneously, for instance. In this case, assuming the application is OK, the font could be damaged for whatever reason, or you may have a bad memory.


--- On Tue, 2/2/10, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Segmentation fault error in xdvipdfmx 0.7.8 with CharisSIL 4.106
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 2 February, 2010, 7:00 AM
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Benct
> Philip Jonsson <bpj at melroch.se>
> wrote:
> > In a bit of a hurry.  Things *are* piling up today!
> >
> > George N. White III skrev:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Benct Philip
> Jonsson <bpj at melroch.se>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I suddenly get a Segmentation fault error in
> >>> xdvipdfmx with CharisSIL 4.106.  It's been a
> >>> couple of weeks since I last used CharisSIL
> in
> >>> XeLaTeX, but I've not knowingly changed
> anything
> >>> in my setup since, though the Ubuntu update
> >>> manager may have...  It happens with all
> input
> >>> using this font, however minimal.  I tried
> to
> >>> reinstall the font and to install it at
> another
> >>> location, to no avail.  I also checked that
> no
> >>> older versions of the font are lurking around
> >>> anywhere.
> >>
> >> I'm not encountering problems with my docs
> >> on ubuntu-9.10 (i686).   Is your OS (uname -m)
>  i686?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> If you are running a 64-bit OS, are you using the
> i386-linux
> >> or the 64-bit x86_64-linux binaries?
> >>
> >> Can you post a minimal input file?  What
> >> happens if you modify sample2e.tex to
> >> use Charis-SIL?  I called it x-sample2e.tex,
> >> which has:
> >>
> >> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> >> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> >> \setromanfont{Charis SIL}
> >
> > Same error.
> >
> > /BP
> 
> Do you trust your hardware?   Hopefully
> someone with the exact same
> distro will try the x-sample2e.tex test.  If they
> don't see the problem
> then we need to consider hardware.
> 
> Grasping at straws, you could try rebuilding the font cache
> with
> fc-cache -f.
> 
> -- 
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
> 
> 
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