I got gitk to not crash by installing unifont package. E.g.
sudo apt install unifont
the font isn't displayed in gitk properly (shows up as an empty square) but at least gitk no longer crashes
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Details of System
VERSION="20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
$ dpkg --list gitk
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
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ii gitk 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3 all fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (revision tree visualizer)
I got gitk to not crash by installing unifont package. E.g.
sudo apt install unifont
the font isn't displayed in gitk properly (shows up as an empty square) but at least gitk no longer crashes
-----------------
Details of System
VERSION="20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
$ dpkg --list gitk Unknown/ Install/ Remove/ Purge/Hold Not/Inst/ Conf-files/ Unpacked/ halF-conf/ Half-inst/ trig-aWait/ Trig-pend /Reinst- required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ======= ====-== ======= ======= =-===== ======= -====== ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ==
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===
ii gitk 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3 all fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (revision tree visualizer)