[XeTeX] XeTeX .92: *** unexpected DVI command: -1 Segmentation fault

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Wed Mar 9 11:10:43 CET 2005


On 9 Mar 2005, at 5:17 am, Roger Hart wrote:

> Today I updated my TeX installation using i-Installer (2004 stable, 
> full install) and then re-installed XeTeX .92.  In running a file 
> which previously worked just fine, I get the following message:
>
> *** unexpected DVI command: -1
> Segmentation fault
>
> I'm afraid that the DVI command is even more unexpected for me than 
> for XeTeX.  Any suggestions?

Ouch! That's not supposed to happen. Sounds like the xetex processor 
crashed, so that xdv2pdf encounters an unexpected end-of-file on the 
.xdv stream.

A couple of suggestions: See if you can narrow things down to a 
particular "problem section" of your file (a certain figure, equation, 
paragraph, or something) that you could send me for testing--preferably 
with a cut-down preamble that doesn't load dozens of packages, etc.--so 
that I can reproduce the failure here.

And check in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter for a xelatex.crash.log file, 
and feel free to email me the last crash report from it. (A new report 
will be appended to that file each time xelatex crashes, and they'll 
probably all have similar content. The most relevant part is usually 
the backtrace, under the heading "Thread 0 Crashed".

Thanks,

JK



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