Bug 193527

Summary: TeXmacs segfaults on start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component: TeXmacsAssignee: Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: cq92j9y+rlkr0w, extras-qa, vedran
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2006-05-30 01:54:37 UTC 
Description of problem:
Starting texmacs (for the first time ever!) just gives a segmentation fault.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
TeXmacs-1.0.6.2-4.fc6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run texmacs from a Gnome terminal
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Actual results:
Segmentation fault

Expected results:
Anything else...

Additional info:
When trying to start it via the GUI, a "Starting TeXmacs..." icon shows up on
the lower menubar, but it goes away after a while and nothing else shows up.
Comment 1 Gérard Milmeister 2006-05-30 08:17:12 UTC 
* What is the output on the terminal?
* Run with "strace -f texmacs" and send the output.
Comment 2 Horst H. von Brand 2006-05-30 13:10:01 UTC 
Created attachment 130226 [details]
The output from "strace -f texmacs"
Comment 3 Horst H. von Brand 2006-05-30 13:10:56 UTC 
* What is the output on the terminal?

Just "Segmentation fault"
Comment 4 Gérard Milmeister 2006-05-30 14:25:34 UTC 
It seems the problem occurs while loading scheme init files.
Rawhide has guile 1.8 instead of guile 1.6.7, so I had to
patch a bit to make the thing compile. Apparently this broke
something. I have no rawhide installation here, so I can't
really test it. Upstream does not yet support guile 1.8
and there has been no discussion about it apart one question
regarding compilation errors which hasn't been answered.
So, I consider TeXmacs broken on rawhide. I think it is
best to request removal from the repositories, unless
you would come up with a solution. I am sorry, I cannot
do more than wait for a new upstream release supporting guile 1.8.
Comment 5 Horst H. von Brand 2006-08-11 23:26:53 UTC 
Created attachment 134072 [details]
Output of "strace -f texmacs" here

Again, just "Segmentation  fault" when running in a gnome-terminal.
TeXmacs-1.0.6.3-1.fc6
Comment 6 Vedran Miletić 2006-09-30 09:16:52 UTC 
TeXmacs 1.0.6.6 should fix this, according to logs on upstream CVS. Can anyone
check that?
Comment 7 Gérard Milmeister 2006-11-12 22:20:44 UTC 
TeXmacs does not work with guile 1.8.0 from FC-6. It will not be available for
FC-6 and current devel until this problem is solved upstream.