[tex-live] Win32: xelatex -0.999.4 failure to process sample2e.tex

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 08:36:48PM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
>> > After today's update, xetex is failing again (using wine on Fedora 8):
>> >
>> > C:\Testing>xetex story
>> > This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>> >  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> > entering extended mode
>> > (c:/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/story.tex
>> > ! Emergency stop.
>> > <recently read> O
>> >
>> > l.7 O
>> >      nce upon a time, in a distant
>> > No pages of output.
>> > Transcript written on story.log.
>> >
>> > $ ls -l /Data/opt/tex/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex*
>> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gwhite bod 2420736 2008-08-03 11:13
>> > /Data/opt/tex/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex.dll
>> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gwhite bod    3584 2008-08-03 11:13
>> > /Data/opt/tex/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex.exe
>>
>> Sorry this time I cannot reproduce the crash on
>> windows 2000, xp and vista.
>> It is weird that reviously "xetex story" worked on wine
>> "with exactly the same binaries" if you reinstall.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Akira
>
> I can reproduce the crash on xp and w2k, although xelatex doesn't
> crash on all files. On vista, sample2e is ok and story compiles the
> first time around but not next times.  Deleting story.* doesn't
> help, deleting xetex.fmt does help.
>
> After a crash, the logfile mentions `access violation'.

I see that as well.

> Might it be that the new xetex depends on Windows components which
> are not always present on Western Windows versions?

xetex font handling is different from the rest of texlive, but I'm not sure how
much of that is used with story.tex.

In case anyone can decipher it:

$ winedbg xetex story \end
WineDbg starting on pid 0016
0x60413e32: movl	%esi,0x0(%esp)
Wine-dbg>cont
First chance exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in
32-bit code (0x100b9450).
Register dump:
 CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
 EIP:100b9450 ESP:0068fda8 EBP:00690108 EFLAGS:00210286(   - 00      -RISP1)
 EAX:00000000 EBX:00000002 ECX:00000000 EDX:00000100
 ESI:00000000 EDI:0068fe3c
Stack dump:
0x0068fda8:  00000001 09600028 050f0028 050f0028
0x0068fdb8:  100b985a 0068fe28 00000002 0068fe30
0x0068fdc8:  0068fe3c 00000002 0068fe2c 00000100
0x0068fdd8:  00000000 100b9898 00690108 0068fe28
0x0068fde8:  00000002 0068fe30 0068fe3c 00000002
0x0068fdf8:  0068fe2c 00000100 00000000 10042a8f
Backtrace:
=>1 0x100b9450 in xetex (+0xb9450) (0x00690108)

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