Re: zenmap crashes in OSX 10.6

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:33:45PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 02:29:28PM -0500, Jonathan Nilson wrote:
> > Still crashes ...
> >
> > valentina:~ nilsonj$ sudo
> > /Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/MacOS/zenmap_wrapper.py
> > Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-ZdeUX0/:0".
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > NB Running the .bin will produce a GUI, but the characters are all
> > off-codepage so they are not rendered.  Could be a codepage definition
> > problem?
>
> No, you get the boxes when Pango can't find its configuration files.
> Because the Zenmap.app bundle can be run from anywhere, but GTK+ and
> Pango require static locations in their configuration files, we write a
> set of files to ~/.zenmap-etc on startup. Running the .bin directly
> bypasses the creation of those files and the setting of environment
> variables that cause them to be used, so Pango rendering doesn't work.
>
> Try removing the .zenmap-etc directory (rm -r ~/.zenmap-etc) and let us
> know if that works.

Also delete ~/.fontconfig. I found this Wireshark bug that is relevant:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3969

David Fifield
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