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 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 +++-==============-=================-============-============================================================================== ii gitk 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3 all fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (revision tree visualizer) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852985 Title: X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/+bug/1852985/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
