Subject: Re: Problem with delete key - another one
From: Andrew
Date: May 17, 2010

Previous: 710

To follow up on my own message, after having had some time now to track things down I have managed to resolve, or at least work around, the problem. In the hope that it might help someone else, heres what I ended up doing:

1) delete/rebuild various font caches - didnt help

2) install/update various font related packages using Fink (Mac OS X only):

freetype (installed v. 1, updated v. 2)
xfontpath (updated)
msttcorefonts (probably not necessary?)

If I had to guess, freetype is the likely culprit, and its clearly an X11 and not a Mac OS problem.

Andrew

--- In nmr_sparky@yahoogroups.com , Andrew andrew-fowler@... wrote:

Hi everyone,

I seem to find all the errors hitting the delete key. This one seems to have cropped up today - Sparky was working fine last week.

Im trying to get rid of a number of gridlines (although I see the same behavior with peaks), so I select what I want and hit the delete key. Sparky very reproducibly crashes with the following error:

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: 0x6001c6
Serial number of failed request: 12523
Current serial number in output stream: 12524

Im currently running Mac OS X 10.6.3 on an Intel CoreDuo iMac. I did recently disable some duplicate fonts trying to resolve a MS Word problem, but some version of all of them is still available and FontBook gives the remaining versions a clean bill of health.

I hope this isnt related to a previous libfreetype problem (see message #573), since the library linked in the solution isnt available any more and this had been a 10.4 problem only.

Any solutions/suggestions greatly appreciated.

Andrew