Re: Segfaulting on startup - troubleshooting question

Please file this on github :)

On 5 February 2015 at 11:12, Nathan Willis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently FontForge started crashing on me at startup when opening a
> particular SFD file -- one which has worked in the past.  No issues with
> other files.
>
> From the command line, all I see are a bunch of
> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() warnings, like so:
>
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 164.000000 295.000000 428.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 164.000000 428.000000 537.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 164.000000 537.000000 537.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 164.000000 537.000000 380.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 253.000000 252.000000 578.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 253.000000 578.000000 614.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 253.000000 614.000000 614.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 761.000000 892.000000 1025.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 761.000000 1025.000000 1134.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 761.000000 1134.000000 1134.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 761.000000 1134.000000 977.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 62.900000 40.000000 -213.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 62.900000 -213.000000 -156.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() -99.100000 -122.000000 -375.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() -99.100000 -375.000000 -318.000000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 469.500000 356.500000 162.500000
>> SPLFirstVisitorFoundSoughtXY() 469.500000 162.500000 269.500000
>>
>> [1]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
>
>
>
> Naturally, I would assume there's a problem in the file, but I get maaaany
> copies of that same warning even when opening files that FF has no trouble
> with.
>
> What is it trying to tell me?  Searching on GitHub, I see it comes up in a
> few issue reports, but never with much in the way of explanation.
>
> How do I figure out what the trouble is?
>
> Nate
> --
> nathan.p.willis
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Cheers
Dave

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