[XeTeX] Problem building XeTeX on Ubuntu 8.04

Mi CHEN chenmi1999 at gmail.com
Sun May 25 16:07:17 CEST 2008


Thanks for your reply,

If I got "Segmentation Fault" while compiling, so did "xelatex -no-pdf".

I will try gdb tomorrow.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
> On 25 May 2008, at 1:16 pm, Mi CHEN wrote:
>
>> I'm using openSUSE and I successfully build and install xetex, but
>> xelatex failed sometimes because of Segmentation Fault if I'm a normal
>> user and everything is OK if I'm root:(
>>
>> I cannot find a dump file, so I don't know what really happened.
>>
>
>
> Sorry, there's not enough detail here to try and diagnose what's
> going wrong. If you have a xelatex job that fails with segfault,
> could you try running this under gdb and get a backtrace to show
> where it's crashing?
>
> Another thing to do is to run "xelatex -no-pdf" first to generate
> an .xdv file, then xdvipdfmx to convert to PDF; that way you can find
> out which of the processes is failing.
>
> JK
>
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Regards,
Mi


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