[XeTeX] Segmentation fault error in xdvipdfmx 0.7.8 with CharisSIL 4.106

[Benct Philip Jonsson]

In a bit of a hurry.  Things *are* piling up today!

George N. White III skrev:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj at melroch.se> wrote:
> 
>> I suddenly get a Segmentation fault error in
>> xdvipdfmx with CharisSIL 4.106.  It's been a
>> couple of weeks since I last used CharisSIL in
>> XeLaTeX, but I've not knowingly changed anything
>> in my setup since, though the Ubuntu update
>> manager may have...  It happens with all input
>> using this font, however minimal.  I tried to
>> reinstall the font and to install it at another
>> location, to no avail.  I also checked that no
>> older versions of the font are lurking around
>> anywhere.
> 
> I'm not encountering problems with my docs
> on ubuntu-9.10 (i686).   Is your OS (uname -m)  i686?

Yes.

> If you are running a 64-bit OS, are you using the i386-linux
> or the 64-bit x86_64-linux binaries?
> 
> Can you post a minimal input file?  What
> happens if you modify sample2e.tex to
> use Charis-SIL?  I called it x-sample2e.tex,
> which has:
> 
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setromanfont{Charis SIL}

Same error.

/BP

> 
> in the output from dvipsfmx:
> 
> $ xdvipdfmx -E -vv x-sample2e.xdv
> <FONTMAP:pdftex.map><FONTMAP:cid-x.map>DVI Comment:  XeTeX output
> 2010.02.01:1111
> x-sample2e.xdv -> x-sample2e.pdf
> <AGL:texglyphlist.txt>[1<CharisSIL(Charis
> SIL:Regular)@20.66pt<NATIVE-FONTMAP:CharisSIL/H/65536/0/0>
> fontmap: CharisSIL/H/65536/0/0 ->
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-charis/CharisSILR.ttf(Identity-H)
> [...]
> 
> 
>> The output of various relevant commands, pruned to
>> what I think is the relevant lines -- lines inside
>> [... ...] were added by me by hand --, is as follows.
>> Some of it is in Swedish, but that should cause no
>> problem: "segmenteringsfel" is of course "segmentation fault"!
>>
>> /BP
>>
>> $xelatex errortest.tex
>> [...snip...]
>> [1] (./errortest.aux)Segmentation fault
>>  )
>> Error 35584 (driver return code) generating output;
>> file errortest.pdf may not be valid.
>> Transcript written on errortest.log.
>> $xelatex -no-pdf errortest.tex
>> [...no errors...]
>> $ xdvipdfmx -E -vv errortest.xdv
>> <FONTMAP:pdftex.map><FONTMAP:cid-x.map>DVI Comment:  XeTeX output
>> 2010.02.01:0934
>> errortest.xdv -> errortest.pdf
>> <AGL:texglyphlist.txt>[1<CharisSIL(Charis
>> SIL:Regular)@17.22ptSegmenteringsfel
>> $ lsb_release -a
>> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>> Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
>> Release:        9.04
>> Codename:       jaunty
>> $ xdvipdfmx -help
>> [...snip...]
>> This is xdvipdfmx-0.7.8 by Jonathan Kew and Jin-Hwan Cho,
>> [...snip...]
>> $ xetex -version
>> XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009)
>> [...snip...]
>>
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