bug#12390: 24.2.50 ; NS variant of GNU Emacs crashes at launch time

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

The font issue is unrelated, open a separate bug for that.
But I'm afraid you have to debug it yourself, it is most likely something in 
your environment.  I don't think any Emacs maintainer has 10.4.

        Jan D.
 
8 sep 2012 kl. 22:45 skrev Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>:

> I made a desperate attempt to avoid the optimisation for my processor 
> hardware, but the failure persists:
> 
>       pete 263 /\  nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
>       *** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found
>       *** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found
>       Fatal error 10: Bus error
>         C-c C-cAbort (core dumped)
>       Exit 134
> 
> The font family exists:
> 
>       ftxinstalledfonts -flp | egrep 'Typewri|Locat' | egrep 'Lucida|Locat'
>       Font    ID      PostScript name         Full name       Location
>       20      8813    LucidaSans-TypewriterBoldOblique        Lucida Sans 
> Typewriter Bold Oblique    
> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterBoldOblique.ttf
>       201     8997    LucidaSans-TypewriterBold       Lucida Sans Typewriter 
> Bold     
> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf
>       202     8999    LucidaSans-TypewriterBold       Lucida Sans Typewriter 
> Bold     
> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf
>       231     9028    LucidaSans-TypewriterOblique    Lucida Sans Typewriter 
> Oblique  
> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterOblique.ttf
>       362     9161    LucidaSans-Typewriter   Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular  
> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf
>       363     9163    LucidaSans-Typewriter   Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular  
> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf
> 
> … but maybe I should clean it up!
> 
> In that case only a strip appeared near the upper left corner of the screen. 
> Its width was approximately that of the scroll-bar, the height approximately 
> half of the screen. The strip accepted commands like C-x 5 2 – which produced 
> a second strip.
> 
>       pete 264 /\  nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -q
>       2012-09-08 22:18:46.348 Emacs[28284] *** -[EmacsImage 
> drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:respectFlipped:hints:]: selector not 
> recognized [self = 0x3a20b10]
>       2012-09-08 22:18:46.348 Emacs[28284] An uncaught exception was raised
>       2012-09-08 22:18:46.349 Emacs[28284] *** -[EmacsImage 
> drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:respectFlipped:hints:]: selector not 
> recognized [self = 0x3a20b10]
>       2012-09-08 22:18:46.349 Emacs[28284] *** Uncaught exception: 
> <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[EmacsImage 
> drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:respectFlipped:hints:]: selector not 
> recognized [self = 0x3a20b10]
>       Fatal error 5: Trace/BPT trapAbort (core dumped)
>       Exit 134
> 
> The initial frame appeared, showing the completely empty *scratch* buffer and 
> also the tool-bar (which I usually have hidden). The frame title seemed to 
> have been initially "Emacs", which soon changed to "*GNU Emacs*".
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete
> 
> Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one that 
> corrupts your file?
>                               – Dan Jacobson, on comp.os.linux.advocacy
> 
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