From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 86080 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2016 11:46:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 86056 invoked by uid 89); 8 Feb 2016 11:46:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=jessica, Jessica, Marco, www.cygwin.com X-HELO: mail-qg0-f41.google.com Received: from mail-qg0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-qg0-f41.google.com) (209.85.192.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:46:49 +0000 Received: by mail-qg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id b67so27704794qgb.1 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 03:46:49 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pwIDQ6EW4qqZ2Iyb7irNYKXM0yN7j5PIs4vknKvmxmo=; b=Op01XuDf3pF/eAuheQuPZlvTr/YvZzM31y8ZUUBreI8KKMxCfgHSwWyXhAmSq42ooL Ab6KJf8kXe7HYqp2+HjPMaZghnd3pl66EndPEYnYMmlhdchKNp9AHSCEFNpzVHWS40dG 2ShCllu4N/roHwqg8tl7sGvZglbOud7LR2GUutNVX0JkCqgYddOqOux4Lw1ztWmaUJWj MngzU2dilYcepLcX+ibPntHuFurxQtRjPdigXgNRdxUL7Hr2Tcj8v/OnJ9w2AIAjhPbR KVkGNRxpocI1Pqg4gbNbzPRYQB5uFA/vDQZedPNYssoPZMrvlVd8/9r1jchN4UBj38SJ xk7g== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOQGktycnAOsN43JxEJ3Xsc4KAaRT9K9i+j9wlz+V2K2fLYiqz/mxrMXCTSmPhrRDQ== X-Received: by 10.140.164.4 with SMTP id k4mr7498826qhk.7.1454932007494; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 03:46:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.106.182] ([24.97.227.121]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 191sm7936220qhq.17.2016.02.08.03.46.46 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 08 Feb 2016 03:46:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: xfig 3.2-5c crashes with dash-dotted lines on cygwin [attn maintainer] To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <56B88021.2040805@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:46:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 On 07/02/2016 22:21, Jessica Purcell wrote: > When I attempt to create or read in an object with line_style > dash-dotted, xfig crashes with the following message: > > xfig3.2.5c: SIGSEGV signal trapped > xfig: attempting to save figure > xfig: 1 object(s) saved in ".../SAVE.fig" > > [1] Abort xfig -specialtext -latexfonts > -startlatexFont default (core dumped) > > > Here is how I got the crash: > 1. Start xfig. > 2. Select polyline. > 3. Select line_style dash-dotted (internal code 3) > 4. Draw polyline. > Xfig crashes. > > Similarly, if I try to open a .fig file containing an object with > line_style dash-dotted, xfig crashes with a similar message: > > xfig3.2.5c: SIGSEGV signal trapped > xfig: Figure is empty or not modified - exiting without saving. > > [1] Abort xfig -specialtext -latexfonts > -startlatexFont default SAVE.fig (core dumped) > > > Creating and reading in files using solid (code 0), dashed (code 1), > or dotted (code 2) lines causes no problems. Dash-dot-dot and > dash-dot-dot-dot (codes 4 and 5) also cause a crash. > > *** > > After doing a little searching for this error, I found nothing on the > cygwin site. I did find some discussion of (what sounds like) the same > error on a couple of linux sites, from 2014: > > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00049.html > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2014-01/msg02798.html > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023744 > > A proposed fix for ubuntu: > http://rlog.rgtti.com/2014/06/26/quick-fix-xfig-bug/comment-page-1/ Fedora seems to use similar solution: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xfig.git/commit/?id=0dee41b56424f903d39d68f860684ad19712ff85 > I did try reinstalling xfig on cygwin, to make sure I had the most > current version, in case this bug had been fixed, since this seems to > be a known error. Then I repeated the steps above. Xfig still crashed. > > Any way for me to get a version of xfig on cygwin with this bug fixed? > > -- Volker, fedora seems to have some additional patches http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xfig.git/tree/ including one regarding fonts that may be solve https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00578.html Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple