Bug 79627 – scilex unable to find Gdk fonts. No text is rendered in the graphical plots

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kaustubh Bhalerao 2005-01-26 12:30:12 UTC]

I emerged scilab 3.0 with the gtk / gtk2 dependencies. Emerge concludes fine. Scilab loads up with gtk widgets. When I load scicos() or the various demos, the console complains that it cannot find the various Gdk fonts (adobe-medium- etc). It presents "Gdk-CRITICAL" errors and says, "Unable to find font: fixed, I'll try to use font: fixed.. Unable to find font: fixed" etc.

The graphs and such plot fine, but no form of text is rendered. The palette objects look unlabelled, there are no labels on the plot axes etc. Object descriptions (when you click on scicos objects) look fine. 

Problem disappears with USE="-gtk -gtk2". (no gtk widgets either)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.add gtk and gtk2 to USE
2. emerge scilab (2.7 or 3.0)
3. run scicos()


Expected Results:  
It should be able to find any fonts it needs!

[Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 02:58:53 UTC]

Can't reproduce this problem. Which version of xorg-x11 do you have installed?
Do you find adobe fonts using xlsfonts?
Your "emerge info" would also be nice.

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 08:07:41 UTC]

Try USE=bitmap-fonts emerge xorg-x11

[Comment 3 Kaustubh Bhalerao 2005-01-28 10:06:17 UTC]

Thanks for looking into the problem. I re-emerged without the gdk dependencies, now I can use the fixed fonts, but it still is giving me the errors. So


Can't reproduce this problem. Which version of xorg-x11 do you have installed?
xorg-x11 6.8.0-r3.
Do you find adobe fonts using xlsfonts?
xlsfonts finds adobe fonts.

Your "emerge info" would also be nice.

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/rc.d /etc/terminfo /etc/wget /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://206.75.217.180/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aac acpi alsa apache2 atlas avi blas cdr crypt cscope cups divx4linux dvd f77 fb festival foomaticdb fortran ftp gif gimp gimpprint imagemagick jpeg kde lirc mad mmx mmx2 mpeg mysql mysqli mythtv net nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png povray ppds qt quicktime readline real rtc sse sse2 ssl tcltk tetex tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts usb v4l2 xine xinerama xmms xv xvid yahoo zvbi"

[Comment 4 Kaustubh Bhalerao 2005-02-07 13:03:15 UTC]

I re-emerged X11 with USE= bitmap-fonts, truetype-fonts and type1-fonts and the errors have disappeared. I can also now use the Gdk widget set for the Scilab UI. 

Cheers!