[plt-scheme] drscheme fails at runtime (linux, plt-scheme-4.2.5)

Do you have a preferences file in "~/.plt-scheme/plt-prefs.ss"? It
could explicitly set the font that DrScheme uses to an old-style font
instead of an Xft font.

At Thu, 20 May 2010 18:31:13 -0700, Imran Rafique wrote:
> Mathew,
> 
> Actually, mred runs fine (just tried it). So there's some font being used by
> code called from drscheme.ss which is causing drscheme to fail?
> 
> Regards,
>             Imran Rafique
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> > My guess is still that the issue is a lack of support for old-style X11
> > fonts in the X server. If that's right, there's still the question of
> > why DrScheme is trying to use an old-style font.
> >
> > When Xft is enabled, it looks like there's still an XLoadFont() call
> > via XCreateFontCursor(), which is used to get basic cursors like the
> > arrow and I-beam cursor. I don't think that's a likely culprit, but it
> > may be worth checking in gdb...
> >
> >
> > I expect that you will see the error when running `mred'. Can you try
> > using `gdb' to run `mred' with the `-synchronous' flag to find out what
> > X call is leading to the X_OpenFont message?
> >
> > Using gdb would go something like this:
> >
> >   % gdb mred
> >   (gdb) handle SIGSEGV nostop noprint
> >   (gdb) run -synchronous
> >
> > The second line is needed because page protection and signal handlers
> > are used to implement write barriers. If you don't ignore SIGSEGVs,
> > then `mred' will appear to crash right away.
> >
> > The above may not be enough to get gdb to interrupt the program when
> > it's about to exit with an X11 error. You may have to set breakpoints
> > on exit().
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew
> >
> >
> > At Wed, 19 May 2010 14:57:52 -0700, Imran Rafique wrote:
> > > Mathew (thanks for responding, btw),
> > >
> > > Xft seems to be enabled.
> > > ''configure --help' says that xft support is enabled by default, and I
> > > didn't disable it manually (I only did --disable-shared)
> > >
> > > $ pwd
> > > /home/imran/opt/plt-scheme/plt-4.2.5/src/build
> > >
> > > $ grep -iC2 xft config.log
> > > configure:10964: result: yes
> > > configure:11241: checking for cairo_create in -lcairo
> > > configure:11276: g++ -o conftest -O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe    -pthread
> > > conftest.cpp -lcairo  -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64  -lGL -lXrender
> > -lXft
> > > -lXrender -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lX11   -lcairo   -ldl -lm  -ldl -lm
> > > -rdynamic >&5
> > > configure:11282: $? = 0
> > > configure:11300: result: yes
> > > --
> > > MREDLINKER='$(CXX)'
> > > MRLIBINSTALL='install-no-lib'
> > > MROPTIONS=' -DOPERATOR_NEW_ARRAY -DUSE_GL -DWX_USE_XRENDER -DWX_USE_XFT
> > > -DWX_USE_CAIRO -DWX_USE_LIBPNG -DWX_USE_LIBJPEG'
> > > MZBINTARGET='normal-bin'
> > > MZINSTALLTARGET='unix-install'
> > > --
> > > XMKMF=''
> > > X_CFLAGS=' -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/cairo
> > > -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12
> >  '
> > > X_EXTRA_LIBS=' -lGL -lXrender -lXft -lXrender -lfontconfig -lfreetype
> > -lX11
> > >   -lcairo   -lpng -lz -ljpeg'
> > > X_LIBS=' -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64'
> > > X_PRE_LIBS=' -lSM -lICE'
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >             Imran Rafique
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > At Tue, 18 May 2010 15:35:01 -0700, Imran Rafique wrote:
> > > > > The error msg is:
> > > > > X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range
> > for
> > > > > operation)
> > > > >   Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
> > > > >   Value in failed request:  0x5e0040b
> > > > >   Serial number of failed request:  14804
> > > > >   Current serial number in output stream:  14805
> > > > >
> > > > > [...]
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm guessing that there needs to be some post-install font
> > configuration
> > > > > that needs to be done (mkfontdir?), but I don't see plt-scheme trying
> > to
> > > > > install its own fonts anywhere (blindness on my part
> > notwithstanding!).
> > > > Does
> > > > > plt-scheme install any of its own fonts for drscheme, or does it
> > expect a
> > > > > specific font to already be available on the local x server (in which
> > > > case,
> > > > > which one is it?).
> > > >
> > > > No, PLT Scheme doesn't install any fonts.
> > > >
> > > > There are two font modes: old-stle X11 fonts and Fontconfig/Xft fonts.
> > > > The mode depends partly on the way that PLT Scheme is compiled (with Xf
> > > > support or not) and partly on what's available from the X server at
> > > > run-time.
> > > >
> > > > When you configure, does the configure script say that Xft support is
> > > > enabled?
> > > >
> >