Andrew, Thank you very much for the tip! I just installed VirtualBox and
Lilypond worked instantly!Qemu is actually a good virtual machine and
I have been using it for years with no problems at all, so I never
suspected that there was some problem with interaction between Qemu and
Hi David,
I have zero experience of Qemu but it appears to be quite a low level sort of
virtual machine environment. Could you consider running Virtualbox instead?
Works very nicely under Windows with Debian, and lilypond runs just fine in
that world.
You certainly should not be absolutely
I upped the swap file to 3G and tried reducing the number of fonts by
using this function:
make-pango-font-tree
That got it past the font loading, but still while processing uses up all
memory and finally aborts with bad_alloc error.
Do you have any suggestions of how to debug this
I have used Lilypond successfully on Windows quite a few times, and want
to try it in Linux. So I booted up a virtual machine using QEMU and
tried to compile the basic test example:
{
c d e f
}
but to my surprise it dies after a few minutes with error:
preproccessing graphical
