[Bug: 21.5-b28] Crash on loading file
Stephen J. Turnbull stephen-at-xemacs.org |xemacs| wrote:
ncph58j02(a)sneakemail.com writes:
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
This is almost certainly an X server configuration issue: you have no
legacy (bitmap) fonts available. XEmacs cannot even display an error
message in the frame in that case; there's no real point in
continuing.
I realized I wasn't as clear as I could have been, especially
in view of that message. The frame actually pops up (with visible
text), and I can even type into the scratch buffer and save files;
xemacs crashes when I try to read a file. (The crash I reported in
the previous message happened when I did ^X^F ~/.vm, but the same
thing happens with any file I've tried.)
You have a few options.
(1) As an immediate workaround, you can run XEmacs in a terminal with
xemacs -nw.
(2) Install legacy fonts (not recommended unless you want to help
support users who don't have access to Xft yet).
(3) Configure XEmacs with Xft support. Gentoo being Gentoo, there's
probably a USE flag for this. If not, add something like
--with-xft=emacs,menus,tabs,gauges
to the configure options you use.
> Fatal error: assertion failed, file lstream.h, line 275, stream->imp == imp
This is not how I would expect XEmacs to crash in this case (usually
the abort is in Xlib's default error handler). Please try (1) and (3)
at least, and let us know if they solve your problem.
I did check with -nw, and the crash is the same. I can try
turning on the xft flag if you think it's still interesting.
--
^.-.^ Mark Purtill
(("))
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