Re: Odd error (gnuplot_x11) when running gnuplot 4.0 on Mandriva 2006

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> Now I am getting very strange error messages from 4.0

It's not really any stranger than equivalent messages that have trickled 
down to us from Fedora Core users and Debianers recently.  These modern 
Linuxes come with some kind of default self-defense mechanism against 
buggy programs.  I.e. they're now picky enough to detect a dormant bug 
in that old 4.0 binary.

> gnuplot> set term x11 font "arial"
> Terminal type set to 'x11'
> Options are '0 font "arial"'
> gnuplot> plot x
> gnuplot> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7f9561c ***

Does that also happen if you leave out the font spec?  Does this binary 
have access to a font named 'arial'?