Texmacs Crash after Mac OS 14.1 update

#1

I have been using TeXmacs extensively for taking college lecture notes. Then I update my Mac book and it’s a before and after doomsday - TeXmacs does not start up. I have spent 3 hours researching and trouble shooting this error no luck. It might be a new one that is not found before.
Here is the logging report I get in my terminal. There are about ~100 fonts that are approximately transformed. I presume this is not the error, but there were some missing fonts and an error on the libpng.
Mac has a Font Book with all the system fonts. Maybe that changed during the update? But besides these aesthetics I have identified the bug.
eXmacs] approximating font tuple (TwentiethCentury.ttc, 1, 291604) ~> tuple (TwentiethCentury.ttc, 1, 290348)

TeXmacs] approximating font tuple (TwentiethCentury.ttc, 2, 291604) ~> tuple (TwentiethCentury.ttc, 2, 290348)

TeXmacs] approximating font tuple (TwentiethCentury.ttc, 3, 291604) ~> tuple (TwentiethCentury.ttc, 3, 290348)

TeXmacs] With linked TrueType support

TeXmacs] warning, missing font, loading global substitution list

libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

zsh: illegal hardware instruction /Applications/TeXmacs.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXmacs

XXXXXXX PROCEEDS TO DIE XXXXXXXXX

Please could some developers help me troubleshoot. I need to urgently retrieve my notes, and I cannot open any .tm files which have all my assignments :sob:

Edit: I am using * Download TeXmacs-2.1.1.dmg for MacOS 10.10 and later.

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#2

There was also another warning message at the beginning: “TeXmacs[2938:67103] It’s not legal to call -layoutSubtreeIfNeeded on a view which is already being laid out. If you are implementing the view’s -layout method, you can call -[super layout] instead. Break on void _NSDetectedLayoutRecursion(void) to debug. This will be logged only once. This may break in the future.”

#3

I see there has been others with the same error " https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64774 ". Is there formal communication on the fix?

#4

Pending a fix, you might try Mogan (https://mogan.app/), which is a fork of TeXmacs (it is quite a while that I do not use it, but as far as I remember for the user it is the same as TeXmacs, or very close).

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#5

Just to mention for people trying to work around by compiling TeXmacs themselves using Homebrew and guile3: in the recent guile version (3.0.9) there seems to be an error in guile-config which prohibits configure to run properly. Switching to guile --HEAD solves the problem as the guile-config bug is already solved upstream.

#6

I am also encountering this. TeXmacs crashes whenever I try to open it. I am on macOS.

Removing ~/.TeXmacs sometimes fixes the issue temporarily, but soon after TeXmacs begins crashing again. It is simply unusable at this point.