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Re: Octave crashes with segfault
- From: Takashi Yano <takashi dot yano at nifty dot ne dot jp>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 00:01:09 +0900
- Subject: Re: Octave crashes with segfault
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I have confirmed that this is resolved with fontconfig 1.12.6-2.
Thanks.
On Sat, 12 May 2018 12:37:47 +0900
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hi, cygwin folks.
>
> I found octave cannot start, or crashes by plot command in recent
> 32bit cygwin. This occurs in Windows 10 (1709 or later).
>
> It seems that this is a problem of fontconfig package.
>
> To reproduce this:
> 1. Install 32bit version of cygwin with the following packages.
> - octave
> - gnuplot
> - xorg-server
> - dbus
> 2. execute 'dbus-uuidgen'. Without this step, octave complains
> about dbus.
> 3. execute 'run XWin -multiwindow'
> 4. execute 'export DISPLAY=':0.0'
> 5.1 execute 'octave'. This fails with the message:
> octave exited with signal 11
> 5.2 execute 'octave -W' and issue the command 'plot([])'.
> This fails with the message:
> panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
> save to 'octave-workspace' complete
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Workaround 1:
> Remove /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/bahnschrift.ttf
>
> Workaround 2:
> Build fontconfig package from source code and replace
> cygfontconfig-1.dll.
>
> cygcheck.out in failure environment is attached.
>
> --
> Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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