Have you run the script thru strace, and see what happens when it crashes? Even better, run it thru a debugging-enabled Tk, and see what the gnu debugger outputs. That is what Slaven would need if you file a bug report. 
> From an old post by Slaven (annotated by me)
Any help would be appreciated...
A backtrace would be helpful: create Tk with debugging support (use

perl Makefile.PL OPTIMIZE=-g      #make a debugging Tk

), make sure that core dumps are written (e.g. by issuing

ulimit -c unlimited            #ensure you can get core dumps

), and for the backtrace you should try:


#gdb /path/to/perl  /path to core/        
#start gdb telling it to run perl and  
#where the core dump should go
gdb /usr/bin/perl ./core

(gdb prompt) run ./my_tk_program   #run your tk program

bt      # do the backtrace thru the core dump

#Regards,Slaven

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If done correctly, it will tell you the exact error and line of code where it was caused in the Tk source code.

If I were you, I would first try to upgrade to the latest Tk-804-027_500, in which many bugfixes have been applied. I've had to patch my vanilla Tk version, because it segfaulted when run with Gtk2 programs...... that patch is included in the _500 release.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum

In reply to Re^5: Tk fonts crash on Fedora by zentara
in thread Tk fonts crash on Fedora by wulvrine

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