Re: Crash on loading NetSurf

On 19/02/2019 22:29, Andrew Pinder wrote:
> Message from NetSurf: "The Unicode font library could not be
> initialised. Please report this to the developers."
>
> I don't believe this is a bug - it's the aftermath of a crash.
>
> This ARMini (RO 5.22) had been out of use for a period due to a house
> move. I had been using release 4335, which seemed stable. I
> downloaded release 4528 as the then most recent. This ran but wasn't
> displaying some pages correctly. I think the next day I had a crash
> while downloading email with NetFetch. This caused disc problems.
> After using DiscKnight and repairing Messenger I then tried loading
> NetSurf. I got the above error message. I deleted r4528 and reverted
> to r4335. The error message still occurs on attempting to load
> NetSurf. I double checked the modules in System to make sure they
> were the ones that came with r4335.
>
> My best guess is that a Unicode file has been corrupted. How do I
> check? Where do I find an up to date version of Unicode to install?

The Unicode resource (!Unicode) has very little to do with the Unicode
font library used internally by NetSurf.

Please provide a NetSurf log file (which can be found by running the
OpenScrap obey file stored in the NetSurf application directory -- shift
double click on !NetSurf to open it) from a crashing start -- this
contains copious information which will allow the developers to
understand what is going on. In all likelihood you have a font installed
that causes it to get confused. I thought we'd found and fixed all of
the issues here over the last decade, but clearly not.


J.