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29.4; X11 crash when minibuffer text scale is increased greatly

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From: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, 74981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, visuweshm <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#74981: 29.4; X11 crash when minibuffer text scale is increased greatly
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:34:50 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
>> Cc: Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
>>  text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>>   74981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  visuweshm <at> gmail.com
>> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:37:25 -0800
>>
>> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
>> > text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> >
>> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> >
>> >> I looked up keywords like "GLSL compile failure" but to no avail.
>> >
>> > GLSL is OpenGL Shading Language. Maybe something with your OpenGL
>> > installation is somehow wrong if it complains about unsupported
>> > versions.
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> Ping! Any new information about this?  If not, how can we make some
> progress with this issue?

Sorry for the late response.  I haven't ever used gdb, nor have I messed
around with changing fonts on Linux, like you suggested earlier:

> One other idea is to change the font you use for the default face,
> maybe it's the font which causes the problem.  Cairo could also be the
> culprit, so using a different version of Cairo or a non-Cairo build
> might solve the problem.

If someone gives me some steps to follow to dig into the bug, I'm happy
to be the guinea pig.

Thank you!

Joseph

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