[ xdvi-Bugs-3581714 ] XDvi 22.84.9 (Xaw toolkit): Failed assertion

Bugs item #3581714, was opened at 2012-10-29 14:34
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sairvin
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Category: None
Group: incorrect behaviour
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Archmage Irvine (sairvin)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: XDvi 22.84.9 (Xaw toolkit): Failed assertion

Initial Comment:
$> xdvi pages.dvi 

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XDvi 22.84.9 (Xaw toolkit): Failed assertion:
dvi-draw.c:5928: "G != NULL": T1_SetChar() returned NULL
Aborting now. Please report this as a bug to:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23164&atid=377580
If a core dump has been produced, please invoke:
gdb xdvi-xaw3d.bin core
Then type "bt", and include the resulting output in your bug report.
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Char "y": DoClosePath: No previous point!Aborted


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>Comment By: Archmage Irvine (sairvin)
Date: 2012-10-29 16:37

Message:
Yeah, sorry bit lazy in my initial report. I have included some text below
that reproduces the problem. It is definitely related to the cmbxsl font.
On my system I have a file called
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmbxsl10.pfb. If I remove that
file, xdvi works fine, but does report:

xdvi-xaw3d.bin: Warning: Font map calls for cmbxsl10.pfb, but it was not
found (will try PK version instead).

Not every document or occurrence of this font causes the problem. I have
many other documents using the same fondt for highlighting that continue to
work fine.

\documentclass{article}

\font\bl=cmbxsl10

\begin{document}

The above sets (both finite and infinite) have all been {\bl
explicitly\/} defined (also called a {\bl definition by extension}, in
that we directly listed all the members of the set. It is also
possible to {\bl implicitly\/} define a set with a logical statement
in any language.

\end{document}

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Comment By: Paul Vojta (vojta)
Date: 2012-10-29 15:58

Message:
Can you send the file pages.tex (or at least pages.dvi)?  Otherwise
debugging would not be possible.

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