I just downloaded racket-8.1.0.7-x86_64-linux-xenial-cs.sh and DrRacket doesn’t start. One cpu is at 100% for several minutes, then it stops and nothing happens. Any guess regarding which value for PLTSTDERR I should try? Apart from the “GC” logger mentioned in the docs, I’m not sure which other loggers exist.

I installed it as a unix distribution

It looks like GRacket launcher configuration has gone wrong for Unix-style installation.

Just to make sure, does racket -l drracket work?

I was stuck a while today. The value get-text-extent returned as the distance between the baseline and the descender line weren’t correct. Turns out the problem happens when the strings contains newlines. So now I simply use a fixed “x” string to get the distance.

The question is now, what value is get-text-extent is returning when there are newlines in the string?

I tried again with the pre-release: https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/3895

and yes racket -l drracket works, but with many errors. Although I didn’t see these errors in the 8.1.0.7

What are the errors?

Probably I should just try the pre-release build…

samth observed these were just infos/warnings, not errors. That was due to me playing with PLTSTDERR (and not being sure what I was doing)