Re: Cryptical errormessage

[Erik Sandberg]

On Sunday 04 September 2005 17.21, Hans de Rijck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get an errormessage that I don't understand, the last lines of
> lilypond --verbose are:
>
> 819][822][825][828][831][834][837][840][843][846][849][852][855][858][861][
>8 64][
> 867][870][873][876][879][882][885][888][891][894][897][900][903][906][909][
>9 12][
> 915][918][921][924][927][930][933][936][939][942][945][946]
> Optimal demerits: 3.725138
> Element count
> 37348.[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][1
> 7][18][19][20][21][
> programming error: not a markup:
> continuing, cross fingers
> ()Assertion failed: false, file text-interface.cc, line 61
>
> abnormal program termination
>
> Are the numbers in square brackets after 'Element count' barnumbers? In the
> lines above they are. But measures 1 to 30 are only full measure rests with
> no markups.
>
> The assertion message isn't very meaningful too, its logical the result is
> 'false', otherwise the assertion wouldn't have failed. It would be more
> helpful to print what the assertion was.
>
> Any ideas how to find the meaning of the above or how to debug this?
>
> Apart from the message above there are no warnings or errors.

This is a clear bug, please send a bugreport.

The error message is only meant to be understood by developers, but we need to 
be able to reproduce it.

-- 
Erik