From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
Cc: mwd@cert.org, 23522@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23522: 25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 18:14:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2iy7zxz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877feyau34.fsf@md5i.com> (message from Michael Welsh Duggan on Fri, 13 May 2016 10:52:31 -0400)
> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
> Cc: mwd@md5i.com, Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>, mwd@cert.org, 23522@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 10:52:31 -0400
>
> > So the question becomes: where did that value of 'to' come from, and
> > how come its value is bogus? Can you look at the code before the
> > faulting line and figure that out?
>
> It's being filled in by mflt_run() at ftfont.c:2646.
Which means either a bug in the library or a bad font.
> >> xft:-unknown-FreeSerif-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
> >> by these glyphs:
> >> [0 3 0 10195 9 0 10 10 0 nil]
> >> [0 3 2724 2103 10 1 10 10 1 nil]
> >> [0 3 2759 2132 0 -8 -2 13 -10 [-1 0 0]]
> >
> > So why does Emacs use FreeSerif on this system and Lohit Gujarati on
> > the faulting one?
>
> The two systems I have access to are running completely different
> distributions of Linux. I don't have much control over the packages
> installed on the system on which Emacs breaks.
OK, but are both fonts installed on both systems?
> > Are both fonts installed on both systems? Is Lohit
> > Gujarati a bad font, by any chance?
>
> No idea. How can I find out?
Install the latest version of it?
> > Also, do both systems have the same version of libm17n-flt and m17n-db
> > libraries?
>
> Almost certainly not.
Then perhaps using a newer version will help?
Anyway, this sounds more and more like a bug in one of the libraries
Emacs uses, so I hope Handa-san will be able to chime in, since he is
one of the maintainers of those libraries.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-13 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-12 13:05 bug#23522: 25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-05-12 16:40 ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-12 17:23 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-05-12 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-12 19:58 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-05-12 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-12 20:49 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-05-13 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-13 14:52 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-05-13 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-13 18:06 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-05-13 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-13 19:17 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-11-08 4:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-08 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 15:16 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-11-09 7:45 ` Stefan Kangas
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