sigabrt when font face set to Inconsolata

[Kevin Turner]

Binary package hint: emacs22

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

emacs22-gtk version 22.1-0ubuntu10.1

I start emacs22-gtk with -Q to make sure it has nothing to do with my local ~/.emacs,
do M-x customize-face default
set font family to "Inconsolata",
then emacs crashes with SIGABRT (6).

emacs-snapshot doesn't fare much better.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 15 11:15:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: emacs22-gtk 22.1-0ubuntu10.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/srt/bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/home/username/repotools:/home/username/lib/gems/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: emacs22
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Erik Postma (e-j-postma+launchpad)]

Was bitten by this too - or something very similar at least.

If I start emacs-snapshot -Q, then M-x customize-face, default, set font-family to unknown-inconsolata, it would work as long as I don't complete anything.
But completing anything would trigger it: e.g., C-x C-f, hit TAB after the "~/".
Leads to a different signal though - segmentation fault (11).

Note that xfontsel thinks that inconsolata has "spc" equal to "p" for proportional. That seems strange. The full XLFDs are:
-unknown-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1
-unknown-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-15
-unknown-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1

[Graham Lowe (graham-lowe)]

I can confirm that I am having the same issue as Erik Postma.

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

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[Erik Postma (e-j-postma+launchpad)]

Hmmmmmm... it looks like for me it was simply a matter of having a bad package installed...

At one point I installed emacs-snapshot version 1:20080228-2~gutsy from Alex Vassalotti. I realized at some point that emacs-snapshot in the regular archives were now also built with xft support, and removed avassalotti's repository from my sources.list. But apparently I never "downgraded" to a version in the main repositories.

By installing emacs-snapshot-dbgsym, I was forced to realize this and downgrade to 1:20080228-1ubuntu1, which does not have this problem.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Kevin, can you confirm this as well?

[Kevin Turner (keturn)]

backtrace attached. I'm not sure I understand the -dbgsym packages, it installed something in /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin that says "cannot execute binary file" if I try to run it or ldd it, though "file" identifies it as an ELF executable.

So here's gdb output from running the thing in /usr/bin (does it magically know to find symbols in /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin?)

the other thing to note is that there is no dbgsym version of the current version 22.1-0ubuntu10.1, so this is 22.1-0ubuntu10.

[Kevin Turner (keturn)]

backtrace of emacs-snapshot attached. (should this be filed under a different bug than the emacs22?)

[Erik Postma (e-j-postma+launchpad)]

Ok, on *another* machine, I *do* still have the same problem. Seems to be the same thing that Kevin has. I saw that it references xterm.c so I (foolishly) thought it might have something to do with the TERM environment variable and also got a backtrace with

env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY gdb /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot-gtk 2>&1 | tee ....

which does not seem to make much of a difference as I should have figured out immediately. Attaching both anyway.

[Noam Lewis (lenoam)]

Same here, but different action leads to it:
open emacs22-gtk, run: m-x customize-face, default, and change height to 10
then click "set":
b7710b96 in kill () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0x080fd54b in abort () at emacs.c:432
#3 0x080c73a5 in recompute_basic_faces (f=0x2198) at xfaces.c:959
#4 0x0807f640 in init_iterator (it=0xbf8c38d4, w=0x9594fd8, charpos=-1,
    bytepos=-1, row=0x0, base_face_id=DEFAULT_FACE_ID) at xdisp.c:2533
#5 0x08082957 in x_consider_frame_title (frame=<value optimized out>)
    at xdisp.c:9079
#6 0x08082ae0 in prepare_menu_bars () at xdisp.c:9138
#7 0x08085e30 in redisplay_internal (preserve_echo_area=<value optimized out>)
    at xdisp.c:11043
#8 0x0810efc1 in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1531
#9 0x08169860 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x810e270 <command_loop_1>,
    handlers=137608889, hfun=0x8107920 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1484
#10 0x08106d75 in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1330
#11 0x0816993a in internal_catch (tag=137605073,
    func=0x8106d50 <command_loop_2>, arg=137563417) at eval.c:1224
#12 0x08107779 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1309
#13 0x08107b3a in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:1007
#14 0x08107c36 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1068
#15 0x080fe37f in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf8c4bb4) at emacs.c:1770

[Noam Lewis (lenoam)]

The beginning was cut off
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 0xb7384700 (LWP 8600)]
0xb80c5430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb80c5430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
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