From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008043010 Fedora/3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 Firefox/3.0b5 Description of problem: When building a large .tex file using xelatex I often [almost every time] get segmentation faults. - It is possible to get it not to crash 1 out of >20 times. - It might be due to fonts? or maybe images? - It is hard to debug as it does not happen every time - and it gets different amounts done each time - I have a multiprocessor system (perhaps this is why its sort of a race condition?) [New Thread 0x1411a0 (LWP 22094)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. measure_native_node (pNode=0x7f333936f2f0, use_glyph_metrics=1) at xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.c:1677 1677 float y = Fix2X(-locations[i].y); /* NB negative is upwards in locations[].y! */ Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install expat.x86_64 fontconfig.x86_64 freetype.x86_64 gcc.x86_64 glibc.x86_64 libjpeg.x86_64 libpng.x86_64 poppler.x86_64 teckit.x86_64 zlib.x86_64 (gdb) print i $1 = 0 (gdb) bt #0 measure_native_node (pNode=0x7f333936f2f0, use_glyph_metrics=1) at xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.c:1677 #1 0x0000000000433f75 in hyphenate () at xetex1.c:11150 #2 0x000000000040ba29 in zlinebreak (d=0) at xetexini.c:1614 #3 0x00000000004438fd in endgraf () at xetex2.c:1947 #4 0x000000000044a590 in maincontrol () at xetex2.c:6369 #5 0x0000000000410e0f in mainbody () at xetexini.c:4969 #6 0x000000000044e46e in main (ac=<value optimized out>, av=<value optimized out>) at xetexextra.c:349 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive-2007-30.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. xelatex file.tex Actual Results: Crash (Segmentation Fault) or Works - creates file.pdf Expected Results: Works - creates file.pdf Additional info:
Forgot to add that, in the SuSE linux xelatex there is a similar bug reported: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=349148 and it also has the keywords of hyphenate etc... However their xetex minimal test case seems to work quite reliably.
(In reply to comment #1) > Forgot to add that, in the SuSE linux xelatex there is a similar bug reported: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=349148 > > and it also has the keywords of hyphenate etc... > > However their xetex minimal test case seems to work quite reliably. It has been reported as fixed on openSUSE.
Created attachment 314017 [details] 3 different segfaults of xelatex running on input file. In order to get these the following steps were done rm file.aux (After a crash the aux file is usually corrupted - cut mid line) xelatex -no-pdf file (Make sure that it has nothing to do with PDF maker xdvipdfmx) Crashes like these happen 9 out of every 10 runs of the file
BTW, did you guys report this stuff upstream? I haven't seen this in XeTeX's bugzilla... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=194926&atid=951385
I was able to stop the crashing (reliably) by upgrading xetex to the SVN version (0.999.6) and compiling from source. So this bug will be solved in fedora soon after texlive 2008.
This bug continues to happen in Fedora 10, as xetex is still version 0.996 (Here is the upstream report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2047365&group_id=194926&atid=951385 )
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