Bug 32622 – No menu entries in grace and xpdf

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Axel Reimann 2003-11-03 06:57:48 UTC]

Both applications (xpdf 2.03 and grace 5.1.13) seem to work fine, except that all menu entries and buttons show only the underscores indicating hotkeys.
Curiously, only one of my 2 machines seems affected. I couldn't get any help in the Forum, and even my efforts to reinstall Gentoo from stage 1 were in vain.
Since I'm completely lost I'm filing this as a bug report. Any help is appreciated.

[Comment 1 Axel Reimann 2003-11-03 06:59:12 UTC]

Created attachment 20173 [details]
tiny screenshot illustrating the issue

Please note the empty menus and push buttons without text.

[Comment 2 Axel Reimann 2003-11-03 07:00:40 UTC]

Created attachment 20174 [details]
output of 'emerge info'

[Comment 3 Axel Reimann 2003-11-03 07:02:37 UTC]

Created attachment 20175 [details]
output of 'strace xmgrace'

[Comment 4 Axel Reimann 2003-11-03 07:03:59 UTC]

Created attachment 20176 [details]
output of 'ldd /usr/bin/xmgrace'

[Comment 5 Axel Reimann 2003-11-11 03:34:14 UTC]

Problem solved:
After weeks and weeks of desperate searching, I've found the source of this
problem: Removing
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/
from my XF86Config file brings everything back to normal. Now I'd be really
happy to know exactly WHY this solves my problem!?

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-11-11 03:41:54 UTC]

Apparently you have a broken font in there with the same name as a good font
somewhere else.

[Comment 7 Evgeny Stambulchik 2004-08-12 07:42:03 UTC]

See also http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=37