gv @3.7.4_6: Segmentation fault: 11

[claudioLu]

gv
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-jis-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0,-*-*-medium-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Segmentation fault: 11

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I tried on Monterey x86_64 just now and gv launched without crashing.

Please attach the crash log file. It should be in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports.

[claudioLu]

Here is the crash log file​.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks. I converted your comment to an attachment.

I also don't get the warnings you see, so maybe I should pay attention to them.

I found some results for these errors when searching the Internet. One was:

​https://superuser.com/questions/641793/unable-to-load-any-usable-fontset

The suggestion there is to run xlsfonts; if it doesn't show the fonts it's trying to load, then we need to figure out how to get them installed. For example on my system using xorg-server, I see:

% xlsfonts | grep -i -- "^-.*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--.*-140-.*-.*-P-.*-ISO8859-1$"
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-77-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-100-iso8859-1

So 2 matching fonts are there on my system.

What X server do you use—the MacPorts xorg-server port, XQuartz, or something else?

[claudioLu]

[ryandesign deleted redundant copy of crash log]

[claudioLu]

I use XQuartz

xlsfonts | grep -i -- "^-.*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--.*-140-.*-.*-P-.*-ISO8859-1$"
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-77-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-77-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-100-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-100-iso8859-1

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hmm, well I don't know.

You could try asking on the ​help-gv mailing list.

[claudioLu]

I discovered that the problem does not seem to be gv. I had saved the previous version of /opt, before updating it. Under the previous version, the gv from the new version works perfectly. So the problem is the macports update x fonts