[tex-live] [XeTeX] xelatex crashes with a large document (TL2010)

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 06:07:53PM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have installed TL 2010 from TUG and XeLaTeX crashes with rather
> large documents (books not written by me). It crashes also with
> --no-pdf option activated.
> 
> I'm afraid that I cannot provide a minimal sample, I cannot make the
> texts available. all I can do is to attach the crash below.
> 
> Needless to say, I had no problem to compile those books using
> XeLaTeX from TL2010.
> 
> Just in case it might help,
> 
> 
> Pablo
> 
> 
> 
> $ gdb xelatex
[...]

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x08076b93 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x08076b93 in ?? ()
> #1  0x08078a11 in ?? ()
> #2  0x08078a9a in ?? ()
> #3  0x08078a9a in ?? ()
> #4  0x08078a9a in ?? ()
> #5  0x08079c94 in ?? ()
> #6  0x08092165 in ?? ()
> #7  0x0805afb1 in ?? ()
> #8  0x08093ec0 in ?? ()
> #9  0x00307cc6 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8093ea0, argc=3,
>     ubp_av=0xbffff304, init=0x82790d0, fini=0x8279130,
>     rtld_fini=0x2de220 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff2fc) at
> libc-start.c:226
> #10 0x0804e0e1 in ?? ()

This don't tell much, you need to build xetex with debug symbols (no
idea how).

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