On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:11:18 +0100 Stephen Berman wrote:
This was the state of things last night. This morning I wanted to
pursue it but, to my surprise, I now cannot get GTK-Emacs to segfault.
I first started it with no ~/.fonts.cache-2 and no
/var/cache/fontconfig (and without setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
/usr/local/lib) and, as last night, it started slow and a ~1.6 MB
large ~/.fonts.cache-2 was rebuilt. But then I could start further
instances without deleting ~/.fonts.cache-2, unlike last night.
Moreover, when I moved fontconfig back into /var/cache/, I still could
start GTK-Emacs (and a big ~/.fonts.cache-2 was again rebuilt).
That's the current situation. So, I'm pleased that I have GTK-Emacs
back again, but I would still like to know why I lost it in the first
place, so if anyone has an suggestions, I'd be grateful.
Well, now I can get GTK-Emacs to segfault again :-). I noticed that
the desktop fonts didn't look as sharp as they normally do (it took me
a while to notice this, probably because the fonts in Emacs are always
not so sharp :-), so I ran fc-cache, exited KDE and logged on again.
Now my desktop fonts are back to their previous sharpness, but
Emacs-GTK segfaults again with the standard invocation (but I can
start it by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib). So if someone
is able to advise me how to debug this, I can try to do it.