Craig Ringer wrote: >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? > > > I'll recompile with the debug option, and see what happens. I'll try to let you know tonight.
I don't know what LVM is, so I can't comment... Solaris 10 has some great features (like DTrace), but you need to know programming better than I do. :-( Rainer
