9:21 p.m.
Hi,
I've been trying to solve this on my own, but can't think of anything else.
I also tried searching for this error, but found no solution offered.
I apologize if there is actually a solution I should have found.
Here is the problem:
I upgraded from Kubuntu Draper to Edgy and something happened to (X)Emacs fonts.
When I try to launch XEmacs, it exits with the error message attached.
I also attached the gdb output. The core itself is about 10MB, so I am
not sending that, but I can if you think that helps.
The problem occurs in whatever way I try to launch XEmacs, except that
it runs fine when invoked by 'xemacs -nw'.
Just to test, I tried to launch Emacs. That one runs, but the text is
garbled, so I suppose the problem occurs there as well.
I tried reinstalling both emacs and xemacs. I did that in various ways
using one of kubuntu's package managers. I tried to force installing
dependencies, but according to all of them, every dependency is
satisfied.
I also tried installing from the tarball on xemacs.org, but ran it to
some problem that I could not resolve. Please see the attached
"configure_output" file for the just that. I read the suggestion at
the end, but could not figure out what option I would need or what I
am missing.
I posted pretty much the same message on kubuntuforums.net yesterday,
but so far received no replies.
I would very much appreciate any help, because (X)Emacs is essential
to my work!!
Thanks very much!
-Sandor
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4:47 a.m.
sandor kovacs writes:
I upgraded from Kubuntu Draper to Edgy and something happened to
(X)Emacs fonts.
Yup. Nothing we can do about that. The crash you're seeing is really
just XEmacs saying "I can't find any fonts." It's an issue that
requires substantial familiarity with the distro, because that level
of font-handling is all done within X11.
I also tried installing from the tarball on xemacs.org, but ran it
to
some problem that I could not resolve.
I'm not sure what's going on there. You could try configuring with
./configure --with-modules=no
However, your config output says that there are no usable widget sets
on the machine. You either have to install the Athena widgets, or
install GTK v1, or do without a graphical interface. Again, this is
something that somebody who knows Kubuntu can probably solve fairly
quickly.
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12:12 p.m.
Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh sandor kovacs:
I've been trying to solve this on my own, but can't think of
anything else.
I also tried searching for this error, but found no solution offered.
I apologize if there is actually a solution I should have found.
Here is the problem:
I upgraded from Kubuntu Draper to Edgy and something happened to (X)Emacs fonts.
When I try to launch XEmacs, it exits with the error message attached.
I also attached the gdb output. The core itself is about 10MB, so I am
not sending that, but I can if you think that helps.
It looks like your X server doesn’t provide fonts that our X toolkit assumes
will be there. To work around this, either install the fonts in question, or
edit the X resources. The former is Kubuntu-specific, so we can’t really
help you there; the latter involves:
1. Start xfontsel from an XTerm.
xfontsel &
2. Start XEmacs in the same XTerm.
xemacs -nw
3. In the *scratch* buffer of that XEmacs--the buffer that comes up when you
start normally, type the following:
(Help-find-file (locate-data-file "sample.Xresources"))
and then, with the cursor after the last ), C-x C-e.
That’ll give you our sample Xresources file. You’ll need to create a file
~/.Xresources with all the lines in the sample Xresources file that mention
font, edit the fonts listed to reflect fonts that appear on your server
(xfontsel will allow you to do that), and then apply that to the current
display with:
4. xrdb < ~/.Xresources
from an XTerm.
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Fatal error (11).
Your files have been auto-saved.
Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.
Your version of XEmacs was distributed with a PROBLEMS file that may describe
your crash, and with luck a workaround. Please check it first, but do report
the crash anyway. Please report this bug by invoking M-x report-emacs-bug,
or by selecting `Send Bug Report' from the Help menu. If necessary, send
ordinary email to `xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org'. *MAKE SURE* to include the XEmacs
configuration from M-x describe-installation, or equivalently the file
Installation in the top of the build tree.
*Please* try *hard* to obtain a C stack backtrace; without it, we are unlikely
to be able to analyze the problem. Locate the core file produced as a result
of this crash (often called `core' or `core.<process-id>', and located in
the directory in which you started XEmacs or your home directory), and type
gdb /usr/bin/xemacs core
then type `where' at the debugger prompt. No GDB on your system? You may
have DBX, or XDB, or SDB. (Ask your system administrator if you need help.)
If no core file was produced, enable them (often with `ulimit -c unlimited'
in case of future recurrance of the crash.
Lisp backtrace follows:
# bind (frame-being-created)
make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0xb11>)
frame-initialize()
# bind (debugger debug-on-error command-line-args-left)
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