On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:08, Rainer Heilke wrote: > Unfortunately, Scribus core dumps with a Segmentation Fault on start-up. > >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. Building freetype-2.1.9 directly works, > but gives a pile of "dereferencing type-punned pointer" errors (and yes, > that's spelled correctly--what is "type-punned"?). It did build > (freetype-config gave the same version number). I then removed the > Scribus directory, slurped down the CVS tree, and rebuilt Scribus. On > start-up, it crashed at exactly the same point.
The last time I tried Scribus on Solaris it crashed at the same point. This was on Solaris 8. FreeType was crashing when trying to read one of the fonts in /usr/openwin/... I modified the font path in xset until it didn't crash (i.e. take out directories). Turns out that I took out the directory containing the offending point just have Scribus tell me it didn't have any PS fonts. In effect, I never got Scribus working on Solaris. I remember reading about other people needing to go back to older versions of FreeType. You could try older versions (before v2.1.9). Another thing I didn't try but you could is to NOT use any of the Openwin fonts but to download a collection that is known to work and see if FreeType can work with that. -- Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation Email: adam at scan.mc.xerox.com Disclaimer: Any/All views expressed here have been proved to be my own. [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/]
