[XeTeX] unexpected DVI command: -1

[Jonathan Kew]

On 3 Sep 2004, at 5:36 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 3 sept. 04, à 12:17, Robert Voogdgeert a écrit :
>
>> I'm working on a Powerbook G4 550Mhz running MacOS 10.3.5. 
>> Typesetting on another (newer) powerbook G4 resulted in more or less 
>> the same message:
>>
>> *** bad XDV file: DVI_PRE not found, b=-1
>> Segmentation fault
>
> I have just been faced with this very same message for the first time, 
> straight after downloading and installing v0.85.

Ouch. That's not what an "update" is supposed to achieve....!

> I worked on a reduced test case, for which the console output gets as 
> short as this:
>
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.85 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> (./xjfm4.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
>> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, british, french, 
>> german, n
>> german, nohyphenation, loaded.
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) 
>> (./xjfm4.aux)
>> [1]*** bad XDV file: DVI_PRE not found, b=-1
>> Segmentation fault
>
> Jonathan, I'm mailing you this test file separately.

Thanks; the smaller and simpler the test case, the better. I'll look 
into it and see if I can isolate what's going wrong.

JK