Re: GTK build crashes under X

[Stephen Berman]

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.

Steve Berman