On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 16:08 -0700, Rainer Heilke wrote: > Greetings, all. > > I'm not sure what changed in the last little while, but the newest CVS > compiles under Solaris 10 SPARC. Thanks, guys! :-) > > Unfortunately, Scribus core dumps with a Segmentation Fault on start-up.
Any chance you can get a backtrace from the crash? Knowing exactly where it crashed would be really handy. If you've compiled with --enable-debug, just $ gdb scribus (gdb) run and when Scribus crashes it'll freeze. At that point, go back to the terminal and you should see a message telling you why Scribus crashed and when. Type `bt' and press enter. That should result in a whole lot of output. If you send both the initial message, and the messages from `bt', that would be really handy. Please be sure to compile with --enable-debug, since without that the messages are much less useful. > >From watching the splash screen, this seems to happen when searching for > fonts. Running freetype-config gives back 9.7.3, which seems a little > odd, but maybe that's what it is supposed to say? I used the 2.1.9 > package from sunfreeware.com. Upgrading freetype can have "interesting" and unexpected results. Scribus might be compiling against the new freetype, but getting linked against the old one - with a fairly high chance of it going "splat". Alternately, it might be linking to the new freetype, but one of the libraries it uses may link against an older one - also potentially causing some unpleasantness. I've had relatively few problems with installing a new Freetype on my systems when necessary, but I tend to build a new Qt against it too. I have my Solaris 10 images now, it's just a matter of getting around to installing them. I don't suppose Solaris 10 would be compatible with Linux's LVM or anything as unexpectedly and spectacularly useful as that? -- Craig Ringer
