bug#12390: 24.2.50 ; NS variant of GNU Emacs crashes at launch time

[Peter Dyballa]

I made a desperate attempt to avoid the optimisation for my processor  
hardware, but the failure persists:

        pete 263 /\  nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
        *** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found
        *** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found
        Fatal error 10: Bus error
          C-c C-cAbort (core dumped)
        Exit 134

The font family exists:

        ftxinstalledfonts -flp | egrep 'Typewri|Locat' | egrep 'Lucida|Locat'
        Font    ID      PostScript name         Full name       Location
	20      8813    LucidaSans-TypewriterBoldOblique        Lucida Sans  
Typewriter Bold Oblique    /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home/lib/fonts/ 
LucidaTypewriterBoldOblique.ttf
	201     8997    LucidaSans-TypewriterBold       Lucida Sans  
Typewriter Bold     /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ 
Versions/1.3.1/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf
	202     8999    LucidaSans-TypewriterBold       Lucida Sans  
Typewriter Bold     /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ 
Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf
	231     9028    LucidaSans-TypewriterOblique    Lucida Sans  
Typewriter Oblique  /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ 
Versions/1.3.1/Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterOblique.ttf
	362     9161    LucidaSans-Typewriter   Lucida Sans Typewriter  
Regular  /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/ 
Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf
	363     9163    LucidaSans-Typewriter   Lucida Sans Typewriter  
Regular  /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/ 
Home/lib/fonts/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf

… but maybe I should clean it up!

In that case only a strip appeared near the upper left corner of the  
screen. Its width was approximately that of the scroll-bar, the  
height approximately half of the screen. The strip accepted commands  
like C-x 5 2 – which produced a second strip.

        pete 264 /\  nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -q
	2012-09-08 22:18:46.348 Emacs[28284] *** -[EmacsImage  
drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:respectFlipped:hints:]:  
selector not recognized [self = 0x3a20b10]
        2012-09-08 22:18:46.348 Emacs[28284] An uncaught exception was raised
	2012-09-08 22:18:46.349 Emacs[28284] *** -[EmacsImage  
drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:respectFlipped:hints:]:  
selector not recognized [self = 0x3a20b10]
	2012-09-08 22:18:46.349 Emacs[28284] *** Uncaught exception:  
<NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[EmacsImage  
drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:respectFlipped:hints:]:  
selector not recognized [self = 0x3a20b10]
        Fatal error 5: Trace/BPT trapAbort (core dumped)
        Exit 134

The initial frame appeared, showing the completely empty *scratch*  
buffer and also the tool-bar (which I usually have hidden). The frame  
title seemed to have been initially "Emacs", which soon changed to  
"*GNU Emacs*".

--
Greetings

  Pete

Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one  
that corrupts your file?
                                – Dan Jacobson, on comp.os.linux.advocacy