[XeTeX] Segmentation fault

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 25 juil. 05 à 18:07, Malcolm Ross a écrit :

> As the TeXShop console transcript below shows, when I run XeTeX, I  
> get the error message 'segmentation fault'. This occurs whichever  
> file I run XeTeX on. There is a pause, always at the same point,  
> then the error message appears and nothing further happens. This  
> didn't happen yesterday, nor ever before, and I cannot think of  
> anything I have done which would have occassioned this behaviour. I  
> have reinstalled XeTeX with i-Installer -- to no avail. This does  
> not happen with PDFTeX.
>
> A Google search tells me that a segmentation error is a Unix error  
> that 'occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location  
> that it is not allowed to access'. I understand the words  
> superficially, but they don't help me. However, my copy of  
> Microsoft Word 2004 has refused to work since yesterday (quits  
> immediately after starting up), and I am wondering if the two  
> events are connected.

At the instant the segmentation fault occurs, or Word fails to start  
up, is there any special output written to log files such as:

/Library/Logs/Console/501/console.log
/private/var/log/system.log

The easiest way to access these files is through /Applications/ 
Utilities/Console.app, clicking on the Logs button in the toolbar and  
picking up the file name in the list that appears on the left.

Bruno Voisin