.scm problems when running LilyPond

[Sophie Marshall]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone will be able to shed some light on why my lilypond
installation isn't working.  I've compiled and installed lilypond version
2.4.2 on Slackware 10.0, and running "lilypond --help" gives the expected
output.  However, when I try lilypond on the simple test file in the
getting-started guide, I get the following error (--verbose option was
used in case it gives any more insight):

GNU LilyPond 2.4.2

LILYPOND_DATADIR="/usr/local/share/lilypond"
LOCAL_LILYPOND_DATADIR="/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2"
LOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale"
LILYPONDPREFIX="/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2"

[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/lily-library.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/define-music-types.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/output-lib.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/c++.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/chord-ignatzek-names.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/chord-entry.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/chord-generic-names.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/stencil.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/new-markup.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/bass-figure.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/music-functions.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/part-combiner.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/define-music-properties.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/auto-beam.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/chord-name.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/ly-from-scheme.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/define-context-properties.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/translation-functions.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/script.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/midi.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/beam.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/clef.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/slur.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/font.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/encoding.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/fret-diagrams.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/define-markup-commands.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/define-grob-properties.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/define-grobs.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/define-grob-interfaces.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/page-layout.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/titling.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/paper.scm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/safe-lily.scm]Processing
`test.ly'
Parsing...
[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/init.ly[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/declarations-init.ly[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/music-functions-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/nederlands.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/drumpitch-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/chord-modifiers-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/script-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/scale-definitions-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/grace-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/midi-init.ly[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/performer-init.ly]][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/paper-defaults.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/engraver-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/dynamic-scripts-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/spanners-init.ly][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ly/property-init.ly]][test.ly]Interpreting
music... 
[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/feta20.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/feta20.tfm[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ps/feta20.enc]][1]elapsed
time: 0.36 seconds
Element count 35 (spanners 8) Preprocessing graphical objects... Grob
count
61[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/feta11.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/feta11.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/parmesan11.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/parmesan11.tfm[/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/ps/parmesan20.enc]][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/feta13.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/feta13.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/parmesan13.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/parmesan13.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/feta14.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/feta14.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/parmesan14.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/parmesan14.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/feta16.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/feta16.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/parmesan16.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/parmesan16.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/feta18.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/feta18.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/parmesan18.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/parmesan18.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/parmesan20.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/parmesan20.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/feta23.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/feta23.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/afm/parmesan23.afm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/fonts/tfm/parmesan23.tfm]
Calculating line breaks... Global shortest duration is 3/16
[2]
Optimal demerits: 49.943762
Element count
41.[0][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecrm6.tfm[/usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/tex256.enc]][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecrm8.tfm][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecrm10.tfm][/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/ec-fonts-mftraced/ecrm17.tfm][/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/tex/latin1.enc]Backtrace:
In /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/page-layout.scm:
  72: 29  (set! stencil (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge stencil Y ...))
  73: 30* [ly:stencil-combine-at-edge #f 1 -1 ...
  74: 31* [Text_interface::interpret_markup #< Output_def> ((# # #
...)) ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 32* [get-coding-vector "latin1"]
In /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/encoding.scm:
 124: 33* [caddr ...
 124: 34* [get-coding "latin1"]
 105: 35  (let ((entry #)) (if entry (cons # #) (if # # #)))
    ...
 107: 36  [cons "latin1.enc" ...
 107: 37* [force #<promise #<procedure #f ()>>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 38* [#<procedure #f ()>]
In /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.4.2/scm/encoding.scm:
  76: 39* [get-coding-from-file "latin1.enc"]
  65: 40  (let* ((coding #) (com #) (vec #) (tab #)) (list com vec tab))
  65: 41* [read-encoding-file "latin1.enc"]
  15: 42  (let* ((path #) (unused #) (raw #) (string #) ...) (cons command
vector))
  19: 43* [match:substring #f 1]
In unknown file:
   ?: 44  (let* ((matchnum #) (start #) (end #)) (and start end ...))
   ?: 45* [match:start #f 1]
   ?: 46  (let* ((matchnum (if # # 1)) (start (car #))) (if (= start
-1) #f start))
   ?: 47* [car ...
   ?: 48* [vector-ref #f 2]

<unnamed port>: In procedure vector-ref in expression (vector-ref match
matchnum):
<unnamed port>: Wrong type argument in position 1: #f
 


From what I can see, it seems to interpret the music correctly but fails
when trying to generate the output.  Does anyone have any ideas as to how
I might solve this or where I might look to understand the problem
further?

Many thanks

Sophie Marshall