The default glest.ini file specifies a utopia font for glest. utopia is provided by either media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi or media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi, neither of which were installed on my system. The ebuild did not detect and account for this dependency. Without this font, glest dies during startup with the following error: Exception: Font not found. Note: I initially worked around this by changing /usr/share/games/glest/glest.ini to specify a different font (helvetica). I then installed utopia and changed glest.ini back to its original configuration. Both of these things allowed glest to work. Then I uninstalled utopia and tried to run glest again. It still worked. I deleted my ~/.glest directory thinking it cached the font, but that did not make a difference. So I am not sure exactly what the problem is. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge glest 2.run glest 3. Actual Results: initially, glest failed with an error about not being able to find the font. Expected Results: glest should run without error Portage 2.1.5.6 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25-tuxonice-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-tuxonice-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Timestamp of tree: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:45:03 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US" LC_ALL="en_US" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gentoo-china /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 arts bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus dri dvd dvdr ffmpeg flac gdbm gif gimp gnutls gpm hal hddtemp iconv icu isdnlog java joystick jpeg kde lm_sensors logitech-mouse matroska midi mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses newspr nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 readline reflection sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl svg syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis x264 xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
glest does depend on font-adobe-utopia-75dpi
(In reply to comment #1) > glest does depend on font-adobe-utopia-75dpi > I didn't check, honestly. It wasn't pulled in when I emerged.
Reopen if you can reproduce it. The font is in the dep list.
