Repeated Mac arm64 crashes of xdvi-xaw with "set_no_char: attempt to set character of unknown font, offset 42"

John Hawkinson jhawk at alum.mit.edu
Sun Jan 23 12:56:06 CET 2022


On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 4:13 AM Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please run dvitype on your dvi file. If that fails then the dvi file is not valid. Attaching the dvi file to your response would also help.

Thanks, Jonathan. dvitype produces nearly 1,000 lines of output and
appears to succeed. The actual .dvi file as well as the dvitype output
are attached here.
And, since I guess this list culture is good with MIME attachments,
the MWE .tex file from my original message for good measure, since its
size is dwarfed by the other two.

Here are the first few lines of the dvitype output:

jhawk at loud-room 2021 eoir ca1 % dvitype t2a
This is DVItype, Version 3.6 (TeX Live 2021)
Options selected:
  Starting page = *
  Maximum number of pages = 1000000
  Output level = 4 (the works)
  Resolution = 300.00000000 pixels per inch
numerator/denominator=25400000/473628672
magnification=1000;       0.00006334 pixels per DVI unit
' TeX output 2022.01.22:1824'
Postamble starts at byte 2057.
maxv=41484288, maxh=26673152, maxstackdepth=4, totalpages=3
Font 30: cmbx10---loaded at size 655360 DVI units
Font 29: cmcsc10---loaded at size 655360 DVI units
Font 28: cmbx12 scaled 1200---loaded at size 943718 DVI units
 (this font is magnified 120%)
Font 18: cmr10---loaded at size 655360 DVI units

42: beginning of page 1
87: push
...

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jhawk at alum.mit.edu
John Hawkinson
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