Re: coredumps with fc-cache, fc-list

[Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>]

On 8/28/2012 4:26 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Fontconfig is WJFFM (Win7 x64, 290 .ttf files in Windows fontdir, none
> with spaces).  I suspect you have a corrupt or otherwise incorrect font
> file in your Windows fontdir.  What happens if you remove that directory
> from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf?  Can you try to narrow it down further to a
> specific font file?

Yes, that was it. The Thai font Angsana New (Regular) was corrupt; 
removing it and all the other Angsana TTF files fixed that problem.  Now 
I'm back to debugging, on the Vista machine where gdb actually works 
[1], the original problem with rxvt-unicode which I encountered on W7 -- 
that is, whenever I do anything "interesting" (like, say, simply 
starting vi), my rxvt-unicode terminal crashes with a SIGABRT:

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x77015490 in ntdll!ZwWaitForSingleObject ()
    from /c/Windows/system32/ntdll.dll
#2  0x757b9aa4 in WaitForSingleObjectEx ()
    from /c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll
#3  0x00000564 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()


No idea why. I have debugging symbols available but...the abort appears 
to occur down in ntdll somewhere, and I have nothing informative in the 
remaining backtrace. Sigh.  I'm pretty much stumped at this point; my 
next try will be to build a completely minimal, zero frills, version and 
see if it works better. If so, then slowly add features back...

[1] "Space key + gdb": http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00571.html

--
Chuck

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