I have confirmed that this is resolved with fontconfig 1.12.6-2. Thanks.
On Sat, 12 May 2018 12:37:47 +0900 Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> wrote: > Hi, cygwin folks. > > I found octave cannot start, or crashes by plot command in recent > 32bit cygwin. This occurs in Windows 10 (1709 or later). > > It seems that this is a problem of fontconfig package. > > To reproduce this: > 1. Install 32bit version of cygwin with the following packages. > - octave > - gnuplot > - xorg-server > - dbus > 2. execute 'dbus-uuidgen'. Without this step, octave complains > about dbus. > 3. execute 'run XWin -multiwindow' > 4. execute 'export DISPLAY=':0.0' > 5.1 execute 'octave'. This fails with the message: > octave exited with signal 11 > 5.2 execute 'octave -W' and issue the command 'plot([])'. > This fails with the message: > panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself... > attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'... > save to 'octave-workspace' complete > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > Workaround 1: > Remove /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/bahnschrift.ttf > > Workaround 2: > Build fontconfig package from source code and replace > cygfontconfig-1.dll. > > cygcheck.out in failure environment is attached. > > -- > Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- 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
