Bug 268954 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 fails to start with no media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kilian 2009-05-07 17:34:57 UTC]

On my amd64 machine, x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 fails to start with no media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed.
After installing media-fonts/font-misc-misc there are no problems.
I think that this is no duplicate to bug 224953 since x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 has no dependencie to media-fonts/font-misc-misc at all (as far as I can see)

The last two lines in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log are:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

So, adding media-fonts/font-misc-misc to the deps in x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 should fix this one.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 without media-fonts/font-misc-misc beeing installed
2. Start the x-server via the xdm init script
3. Drink some Tea.

Actual Results:  
xorg-server doesn't start

Expected Results:  
xorg-server should start

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-05-12 09:04:17 UTC]

Please attach your Xorg.0.log and the output of "emerge libXfont -pv".

Thanks

[Comment 2 Kilian 2009-05-12 17:22:03 UTC]

Created attachment 191050 [details]
Xorg.0.log without media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed

[Comment 3 Kilian 2009-05-12 17:23:03 UTC]

Created attachment 191051 [details]
Output of "emerge libXfont -pv" without media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-05-12 20:33:37 UTC]

An ugly version of the "fixed" font should be built into libXfont and thus used by the server (that's the "built-ins" line in your log's FontPath entry).

Somehow, the server is not picking it up...

Let's see, could you attach the output of "ldd /usr/bin/Xorg" and the output of "readelf -a /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1" ?

Thanks

[Comment 5 Kilian 2009-05-12 21:16:53 UTC]

Created attachment 191069 [details]
Output of "ldd /usr/bin/Xorg"

[Comment 6 Kilian 2009-05-12 21:17:51 UTC]

Created attachment 191071 [details]
Output of "readelf -a /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1"

Here you go :-)

[Comment 7 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-05-12 22:16:58 UTC]

Hum, just out of curiosity since I'm running out of options, could you try the following : 

FEATURES="keeptemp" emerge -1 --nodeps libXfont xorg-server

And attach both build.log files here?

Thanks

[Comment 8 Kilian 2009-05-12 23:09:02 UTC]

Created attachment 191077 [details]
x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 build.log

[Comment 9 Kilian 2009-05-12 23:10:23 UTC]

Created attachment 191079 [details]
x11-libs/libXfont-1.3.4 build.log

Voila.

[Comment 10 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-05-13 11:08:27 UTC]

Btw, did the rebuild help in any way?

Thanks

[Comment 11 Kilian 2009-05-13 15:11:23 UTC]

No, it didn't
By the way, thx for taking care of this :-)

[Comment 12 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-08-17 21:14:26 UTC]

I've checked on many stable and unstable boxes and this particular Xorg/libXfont feature works perfectly fine on all of them.

I can't understand why this is happening. The only thing that comes to mind is a broken toolchain (gcc, binutils, ...)

Sorry, I'm out of ideas here.