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24.0.50; crash because of missing font for menus

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From: Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa <at> freenet.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50; crash because of missing font for menus
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:16:33 +0200

Hello!

Trying to debug a failure in font handling by the X server – XQuartz  
2.5.1 (xorg-server 1.8.0.902) – I removed some elements from Font  
Path. When I now open a menu either from menu-bar or by making it pop  
up, GNU Emacs reports:

	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-frutiger linotype-bold-r-normal- 
*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" to type FontStruct

It comes from the X resource

	Emacs*menu*font:	-*-frutiger linotype-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*- 
iso10646-1

When the menus just open no crash happens. It also does not happen  
when I select an item from a menu I open from the menu-bar, as in this  
case, when I invoked the function to report a bug from the Help menu.  
The crash happens when I select a menu entry from a pop-up menu or  
close the pop-up menu after I have entered the next menu level. So it  
works to change text font size, but buffer selection or selection of  
another font or fontset from the next menu level lead to the crash,  
and just closing that menu unused as well.

GNU Emacs 23.1.93 complains the same way about the font, but it never  
crashes.

BTW, the X resource setting does not seem to work well: some other  
font is used, one, which is *always* available. I also remember that  
some update (bzr pull -v) mentioned a message that due to some changes  
in text handling of Xaw based menus (to display UTF-8 encoded text  
correctly) some X resources were changed. Where are these names  
recorded or documented?



In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
 of 2010-05-06 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version  
11.0.10800902
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-dbus' '-- 
without-pop' '--without-gconf' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--x- 
libraries=/usr/X11/lib' '--x-includes=/usr/X11/include' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar24:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-g -H -Wno-pointer-sign -pipe -fPIC  
-fno-common -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -faltivec -fast' 'CPPFLAGS='  
'LDFLAGS=' 'CC=gcc-4.2' 'CPP=cpp-4.2' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/pango- 
ft219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/xft2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/ 
share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/ 
share/pkgconfig''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by name

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  auto-revert-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
y <C-down-mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<send-emacs-bug-report>

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities  
in our air and water that are doing it.

Message #8 received at 6127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa <at> freenet.de>
Cc: 6127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6127: 24.0.50; crash because of missing font for menus
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 09:01:03 +0200

2010-05-06 23:16, Peter Dyballa skrev:
> Hello!
>
> Trying to debug a failure in font handling by the X server – XQuartz
> 2.5.1 (xorg-server 1.8.0.902) – I removed some elements from Font Path.
> When I now open a menu either from menu-bar or by making it pop up, GNU
> Emacs reports:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-frutiger
> linotype-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" to type FontStruct
>
> It comes from the X resource
>
> Emacs*menu*font: -*-frutiger
> linotype-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
>
> When the menus just open no crash happens. It also does not happen when
> I select an item from a menu I open from the menu-bar, as in this case,
> when I invoked the function to report a bug from the Help menu. The
> crash happens when I select a menu entry from a pop-up menu or close the
> pop-up menu after I have entered the next menu level. So it works to
> change text font size, but buffer selection or selection of another font
> or fontset from the next menu level lead to the crash, and just closing
> that menu unused as well.

I can't reproduce this.  Does it work if you remove that X resource, or if you 
put in a font that exists? You have to debug this.
Beware, that while menus are open, the keyboard and mouse are probably 
grabbed, so you should startt gdb outside the X environment.

In general, that message comes from the X toolkit as it tries to find your 
specified font but fails, long before any Emacs code is executed.  I don't 
know if we have a good strategy for handling bad configurations like this.  It 
is after all an error to ask for a font that doesn't exist.

>
> GNU Emacs 23.1.93 complains the same way about the font, but it never
> crashes.
>
> BTW, the X resource setting does not seem to work well: some other font
> is used, one, which is *always* available. I also remember that some
> update (bzr pull -v) mentioned a message that due to some changes in
> text handling of Xaw based menus (to display UTF-8 encoded text
> correctly) some X resources were changed. Where are these names recorded
> or documented?
>

C-h i m emacs <return> s faceName <return>

	Jan D.

Message #11 received at 6127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa <at> freenet.de>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 6127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6127: 24.0.50; crash because of missing font for menus
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 23:22:43 +0200

Am 07.05.2010 um 09:01 schrieb Jan Djärv:

>
> I can't reproduce this.  Does it work if you remove that X resource,  
> or if you put in a font that exists?

Actually GNU Emacs always crashes! Also when the font is available  
*and* when I remove that X resource.


> You have to debug this.

The LOG file to that crash event contains

	Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
	Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000c0000017

It could be caused from the default X11 installation from (this time:  
almost) Apple (this problem comes up every few months, I think). So  
there is also a third party involved, particularly then GNU Emacs  
compiles and runs well with the X11 installation from MacPorts, which  
is up-to-date with development at Xorg. (Could I'm still awake in two  
hours...)


Debugging with GDB/GUD could go on: I have also Emacs.app, the non-X11  
windowing client.

--
Greetings

  Pete

Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one  
that corrupts your file?
				– Dan Jacobson, on comp.os.linux.advocacy

Message #14 received at 6127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa <at> freenet.de>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 6127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6127: 24.0.50; crash because of missing font for menus
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 01:05:28 +0200

Am 07.05.2010 um 09:01 schrieb Jan Djärv:

> I can't reproduce this.  Does it work if you remove that X resource,  
> or if you put in a font that exists?


The resource is deleted (the font is available), only

	Emacs.menu*borderColor:	DeepSkyBlue
	Emacs.menu*borderWidth:	3
	Emacs.menu*shadowThickness:	3
	Emacs.menu.attributeBackground:	lavender
	Emacs.menu.attributeForeground:	DarkRed
	Emacs.pane.menubar.margin:	2
	Emacs.pane.menubar.shadowThickness:	3

exist. GNU Emacs crashes every time, independent of GCC version or X11  
distribution or whether launched with -Q or not or as some other user.

--
Greetings

  Pete

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
				- Sigmund Freud

Message #19 received at 6127-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa <at> freenet.de>
Cc: 6127-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6127: 24.0.50; crash because of missing font for menus
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 17:34:29 +0200

Peter Dyballa skrev 2010-05-08 01.05:
>
> Am 07.05.2010 um 09:01 schrieb Jan Djärv:
>
>> I can't reproduce this. Does it work if you remove that X resource, or
>> if you put in a font that exists?
>
>
> The resource is deleted (the font is available), only
>
> Emacs.menu*borderColor: DeepSkyBlue
> Emacs.menu*borderWidth: 3
> Emacs.menu*shadowThickness: 3
> Emacs.menu.attributeBackground: lavender
> Emacs.menu.attributeForeground: DarkRed
> Emacs.pane.menubar.margin: 2
> Emacs.pane.menubar.shadowThickness: 3
>
> exist. GNU Emacs crashes every time, independent of GCC version or X11
> distribution or whether launched with -Q or not or as some other user.

I found a bug, please test it.  FWIW, I only get it with your resources and 
with an optimized Emacs build, and even then it only happens very seldom.  It 
is a race condition of sorts.

	Jan D.

Message #20 received at 6127-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa <at> freenet.de>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 6127-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6127: 24.0.50; crash because of missing font for menus
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 23:04:36 +0200

Am 08.05.2010 um 17:34 schrieb Jan Djärv:

> I found a bug, please test it.

Yes, it works fine now!

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

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