Hi Mike,
On 28/08/2014, at 7:27 AM, maxwell wrote:
> One of our people is getting a crash in xetex, which I can't reproduce. It's
> very odd, since afaik we're both using the same input files, the same
> instance of xetex, the same TeXLive 2014 files, and so forth, and running on
> the same machine. Clearly s.t. is different, but I'm not sure what, and this
> email is a query about what I should be looking for.
>
> The error msg is:
> ----------
> Error: /rangecheck in --run--
> Operand stack:
> --dict:11/20(L)-- TT0 1 FontObject --dict:8/8(L)--
> --dict:8/8(L)-- TimesNewRomanPSMT --dict:13/13(L)-- Times-Roman
> Times-Roman
> Execution stack:
> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1862 1 3 %oparray_pop
> 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- 2 1 1 --nostringval-- %for_pos_int_continue
> --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push
> --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:1155/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:1/20(G)-- --dict:76/200(L)--
> --dict:76/200(L)-- --dict:106/127(ro)(G)-- --dict:286/300(ro)(G)--
> --dict:22/25(L)-- --dict:4/6(L)-- --dict:26/40(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Command /groups/tools/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux/xelatex -halt-on-error
> -output-directory=./LinguistInABox/output/latex
> ./LinguistInABox/output/latex/linguistInABoxGrammar.xetex -no-pdf died with
> signal 13, without coredump
The problem looks to be with Ghostscript.
You may be using different versions, so check that first.
> ------------
>
> Signal 13 is "Write on a pipe with no reader, Broken pipe."
>
> I believe the crash is happening at the point xelatex is trying to embed an
> existing PDF.
Yes. That PDF presumably has some text in it, using Times font as
TimesNewRomanPSMT .
Others used to using XeTeX under Linux may be able to offer a more detailed
understanding
of the specific kind of error.
> If I'm right (we're going to verify it tomorrow), the command that crashes is
> ----------
> \imgexists{list_intonation.pdf}{{\imgevalsize{list_intonation.pdf}{\includegraphics[width=\imgwidth,height=\imgheight,keepaspectratio=true]{list_intonation.pdf}}}}{}
> ---------
>
> Googling this:
> xetex OR xelatex "rangecheck in --run--"
> brings up about six msgs from 2011, which seem to be the same thread, and
> afaict are irrelevant.
>
> We're running the version of xetex that came with TeXLive 2014
> (3.14159265-2.6-0.99991) on Linux.
>
> Any suggestions as to what I should be looking for?
>
> Mike Maxwell
> University of Maryland
Hope this helps,
Ross
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