From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C481F4B4 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2387714AbgJKLzI (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:55:08 -0400 Received: from mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net ([153.92.174.39]:56170 "EHLO mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387690AbgJKLzI (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:55:08 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 463 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:55:07 EDT Received: from vsmx002.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.192]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744BF607E31; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (unknown [86.56.168.15]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 11FBC607DD1; Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: bug report: gitk crashes on git commit with emoji (utf-8) To: Tomek Mrugalski , git@vger.kernel.org References: <1e06bde8-ae70-2653-5112-c97c9ee021da@gmail.com> From: Peter Oberndorfer Message-ID: <3318fdd6-5709-1d3c-64d8-01d029803635@arcor.de> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:47:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1e06bde8-ae70-2653-5112-c97c9ee021da@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 05.10.20 13:33, Tomek Mrugalski wrote: > Hi there, > Hi Tomek, > $ ~/devel-ssd/git/gitk-git/gitk > X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or > internal Xlib length error) > Major opcode of failed request: 139 (RENDER) > Minor opcode of failed request: 20 (RenderAddGlyphs) > Serial number of failed request: 3065 > Current serial number in output stream: 3148 > > Is there a workaround I could try? > I managed to work around this problem by installing the Ubuntu package 'fonts-symbola'. Testing with your repository, the Emoji is still not displayed correctly but gitk does not crash anymore. This issue (and the workaround) seems to be tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/+bug/1852985 > I'm willing to help with debugging the problem or testing patches. > I'm not sure how long I'll be able to remain subscribed to this list > due to the traffic volume. > > Other than that, gitk has been rock solid stable for me and I've been > using it for years. Thanks a lot for providing this great tool. > > Tomek Mrugalski > Greetings Peter