Re: Pango critical w/ v2.12.1

[Jonathan Kulp]

Oscar van Eijk wrote:
> Hi All,
> I upgraded my system from Ubuntu 8.04 to 9.04, which included a newer
> Lilypond as well.
> I'm not quite sure which version I had before; it was some 2.11.x, but
> now I'm on the stable branche.
>
> However, there's a crash in Lilypond that is known in a 2.11 release,
> but here it is:
>
> bash$ lilypond RedYellowBlue
> GNU LilyPond 2.12.1
> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
> Processing `RedYellowBlue.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... 
> warning: cannot find property type-check for
> `forced-distance' (backend-type?).  perhaps a typing error?
> warning: doing assignment anyway
> [8][16][24][32]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> (process:13500): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically
> loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly.
> This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
>   '/usr/etc/pango/pango.modules'
> You should create this file by running pango-querymodules.
>
> (process:13500): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font,
> expect ugly output
>
> (process:13500): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called
> with bad font, expect ugly output
>
> (process:13500): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_fc_font_lock_face: assertion
> `PANGO_IS_FC_FONT (font)' failed
> Segmentation fault
>
> The pango modules are in /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules, pango.modules
> does not exist in /usr/etc/pango, it does
> in /usr/local/lilypond/usr/etc/pango/pango.modules.

I can't offer a solution but I can report that I've gotten nearly the 
same errors and failures on my iMac at work under OSX when I try running 
it from the command line.  Doing pango-querymodules didn't help. 
Reinstallation of everything likewise didn't help. Oddly, though, 
Lilypond still compiled files perfectly as long as I used the 
Compile>Typeset command from the GUI's menu.  I hate using the GUI, 
though.  I suspect there's a PATH problem but it hasn't bothered me 
enough to hunt down a solution yet.

Have you tried uninstalling Lilypond from the repository and then 
reinstalling using the binary available on the Lilypond website?  I 
would try that next if I were you.  I'm running Xubuntu 9.04 and 
Lilypond works fine for me on it, but I didn't use the package manager 
to get it, I downloaded from lilypond.org.

Jon

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