C-h H crashes GNU Emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

When I use an Adobe Courier based fontset (its description from M-x 
describe-fontset is approximately 50 KB as raw-text-unix) that I am 
trying to prepare from many different scalable fonts for code specific 
code ranges à la

(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec 
"-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" t 
'noerror)
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       'latin-iso8859-1 
 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-1"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       'latin-iso8859-2 
 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-2"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       'latin-iso8859-3 
 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-3"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       'latin-iso8859-4 
 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-4"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       'greek-iso8859-7 
 '("adobe-couriergr" . "iso8859-7"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       'latin-iso8859-9 
 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-9"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       
'latin-iso8859-14 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-14"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier"       
'latin-iso8859-15 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-15"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" 
'mule-unicode-0100-24ff '("adobe-courier" . "iso10646-1"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" 
'mule-unicode-2500-33ff '("adobe-courier" . "iso10646-1"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" 
'mule-unicode-e000-ffff '("adobe-courier" . "iso10646-1"))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x0370) (decode-char 'ucs #x03cf)) '("courier new" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Greek
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x03d0) (decode-char 'ucs #x03ff)) '("lucida sans typewriter" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Coptic
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x0400) (decode-char 'ucs #x04ff)) '("lucida sans typewriter" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Cyrillic
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x0500) (decode-char 'ucs #x052f)) '("lucida sans typewriter" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Cyrillic Supplement
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x0530) (decode-char 'ucs #x058f)) '("aramian unicode" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Armenian (sylfaen
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x0590) (decode-char 'ucs #x05af)) '("lucida sans typewriter" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Hebrew
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x05b0) (decode-char 'ucs #x05ff)) '("courier new" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Hebrew
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x0600) (decode-char 'ucs #x066f)) '("courier new" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Arabic
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char 
'ucs #x0670) (decode-char 'ucs #x06ff)) '("lucida sans typewriter" . 
"iso10646-1"))	; Arabic

GNU Emacs 23 crashes when I invoke C-h H. In the console I can see many 
times

XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 118784, errno = 24
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 118784, errno = 24
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 790528, errno = 24

In the shell from which I launched Emacs I get an "Illegal instruction" 
reported. When I use the bitmap based lucidatypewriter fontset, C-h H 
works fine!

In GNU Emacs 22.0.50 it works with both above mentioned fontsets ...


In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d 
scroll bars)
 of 2005-05-24 on localhost
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300000
configured using `configure '--without-carbon' '--with-x' 
'--without-pop' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-png' 
'--with-gif' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' 'CFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 
'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t


--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

"engineer: a mechanism for converting caffeine into designs"