[Scribus] Re: Scribus Digest, Vol 29, Issue 65 - Scribus crashed due to Signal 11.

[Craig Bradney]

On Friday 29 July 2005 21:00, Robert R. Di Giorgio wrote:
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> >   1. Re: Where are the font files?  Hurry,  (Andreas Vox)
> >   2. Scribus crashes due to Signal 11 (Andreas Vox)
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> >Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:47:36 +0200
> >From: Andreas Vox <vox at isp.uni-luebeck.de>
> >Subject: [Scribus] Scribus crashes due to Signal 11
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> >Robert R. Di Giorgio wrote:
> >>I get this crash every time I try to select Century Schoolbook L Roman
> >>in Edit>Paragraph Styles. This is one of the original fonts in my
> >>FC4/Scribus 1.3.0 installation. It also happens with Nimbus Sans L
> >>Regular Italic, URW Bookman L Light. So far, I haven't seen the problem
> >>with any other font, but I haven't tried them all yet.
> >
> >Please run Scribus from gdb:
> >
> >bash>	gdb /usr/local/bin/scribus
> >(gdb)	run
> >- produce the crash -
> >(gdb)	where
> >
> >then post the output of the where command. This allows us to find out
> >which component of Scribus crashed and maybe why.
> >
> >/Andreas
>
> Century Schoolbook L Roman:run
> (gdb) where
> #0  0x082e4b8f in RealCAscent ()
> Error addressing memory address 0x82e4blc: No such process.
>
> I also noted these messages from gdb:
> Font/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/c0590131.pfb has broken glyph 357
> (charcode 1078) (same font) has broken glyph 424 (charcode 1175)
> (same font) has broken glyph 467 (charcode 1218)
> (same font) has broken glyph 487 (charcode 1245)
> (same font) is broken and will be discarded.
>
> Nimbus Sans L Regular Italic
>
> gdb didn't show "where". The entire message was:
> The program being debugged has been started already.
> Start it from the beginning? ( or n) y
> warning: cannot close "shared object read from target memory": file in
> wrong format
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/scribus
> Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done.
> Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xb38000
> (Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled)
> [New Thread - 12084616632 (LWP
> 8509)]
> Detaching after fork from child process 8511.
> Detaching after fork from child process 8513.
> Font /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n0190231.pfb has broken glyph 321
> (charcode 1044)
> (same font) is broken and will be discarded.
>
> Looks like my problem is broken fonts. How do I convert these font
> numbers to recognizable names? Is there anywhere I can get replacements
> for them (free, of course!)
>
> Thanks again for you time and interest, Andreas
> Bob
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Looking at my PC that c059... is Century Schoolbook L Roman, and the n019.. is 
Nimbas Sans L Regular Italic. Scribus is reporting broken glyphs in your 
versions. Maybe you can recopy the fonts from where you got them?

Craig
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