[tex-live] xdvi crashes

Paul Vojta vojta at math.berkeley.edu
Sun Mar 20 06:14:12 CET 2016


On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 02:03:55PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
> 
> Some progress. I ran xdvi with -debug 'pk,ps,ft' and caused
> a crash. The last output was
> 
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:1735: FT: found freetype font ptmr8r
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:712: FT: gs_try_fopen: /usr/local/share/fonts/luxi /Fontmap: No such file or directory
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:712: FT: gs_try_fopen:  /usr/local/share/fonts/msweb/Fontmap: No such file or directory
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:712: FT: gs_try_fopen:  /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 /Fontmap: No such file or directory
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:712: FT: gs_try_fopen:  /usr/local/share/fonts/AdobeType1 /Fontmap: No such file or directory
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:712: FT: gs_try_fopen:  /usr/local/share/fonts/pmw /Fontmap: No such file or directory
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:1351: FT: Looking for font ptmr8r using gs method (PS name Times-Roman) --
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/font-open.c:1356: FT: cannot find Type 1 font Times-Roman
>   ../../../texk/xdvik/dvi-draw.c:1720: FT: Font ptmr8r is not loadable; reverting to non-scalable font
>   xdvi-xaw: Fatal error: currinf.set_char_p is not a registered routine!
> 
> The document uses (among others) Times-Roman.  My updmap.cfg has 
> 
> dvipsDownloadBase35 false
> 
> If I change false to true and execute updmap, xdvi doesn't
> crash after an unsuccessful search.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Bob T.

Sorry for the very long delay, but the bug is now fixed in the sourceforge cvs.

(In case you were wondering, the part of your musixdoc file that triggered
the bug was Section 2.16.2 (page 61), which used the ptmr7t font, among
others.)

Also in case you may find it useful in the future, here's a near-minimal
(plain) TeX file that also triggers the bug:

------ begin file ------
Test hi hi

\vfil\eject

\font\foo=ptmr7t

\foo Hi again.
\bye
------ end file ------

Thank you very much for the bug report.

Sincerely,


Paul Vojta


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