Bug 140405 – games-board/xboard won't run on Xorg 7

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Cletus Lichte 2006-07-14 13:16:42 UTC]

After upgrading to the new Xorg 7 (stable), xboard will no longer run even after re-emerging with the following error message:

X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
  Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
  Serial number of failed request:  13
  Current serial number in output stream:  14

I've noticed that fonts no longer work for other apps like xterm either, but I'm not sure if this is related.

emerge info:
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17.1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17.1 i686 VIA Samuel 2
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=c3 -mmmx -m3dnow -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=c3 -mmmx -m3dnow -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync11.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 16bit 3dnow 7zip GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE S3TC X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi adns aim allegro alsa amarok amd amr amrr ao aotuv applet ares artworkextra aserve asf asm async athena atk auctex audacious avahi avi bcmath bdf beagle bindist bitmap-fonts bittorrent blender-game bonjour bookmarks branding buttons c++ cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia chm chroot cli config_wizard corba cracklib crypt cscope css cups curlwrappers cvs cvsgraph daap dbus dbx dedicated dga dict dio djbfft djvu dlloader dmi dnd doc dpms dri dts dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 dynagraph dynamic ecc editor edl effects elf emacs emboss encode enscript epiphany ethereal examples extraengine extrafilters extraicons extramodules fam fame fastcgi fat fdftk ffmpeg fftw finger firefox flac flash flatfile fmod fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx gaim galago gdbm geometry gif gimpprint gitsendemail glep glitz glut glx gmail gmailtimestamps gnuplot gnutls gopher gpgme gpm grammar graphicsmagick graphviz gs gsl gstreamer gtk2 gzip hal hash haskell howl howl-compat http httpd hyperwave-api ical icecast iconv icp icq icu id3 idea ident idl ifp image imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 inifile inkjar innodb insecure-savers intl irssi jabber javascript jbig jce jingle john jpeg jpeg2k justify kcal kerberos keyscrub krb4 ladcca ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libg++ libnotify libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors lzo lzw mad mapeditor maps math max-idx-128 mbox mcal mccp md5sum mdb mdnsresponder-compat mhash mikmod milter mime mimencode ming mixer mjpeg mmap mmx mod mod_python modplug motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoroaming mozsvg mp3 mp4 mp4live mpd-mad mpeg mpeg2 mpi mplayer mpm-worker msn mudflap muine multiuser musepack music musicbrainz nas nautilus ncurses neXt net netbeans network nextaw nls nntp no-htdocs no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 nocd nogg nomac nptl nptlonly nsplugin nspr ntfs ntlm numeric objc objc++ objc-gc ogg on-the-fly-crypt openal opengl openssh openssl osc oscar overload pam pango parse-clocks pascal pcre pda pdf pdflib pdo pear-db perlsuid pg-hier pg-intdatetime physfs planner player plotutils plugin pmu png pop portaudio postgres povray ppds preview-latex print procmail python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime quotes rar rdesktop readline real recode reflection rhythmbox rle rogue rpm rrdtool rss rtc ruby sasl sblive screen sdl sensord server session sftp sftplogging sguil shared sharedext sharedmem shorten shout sid skey skins slp smarty smime smtp smux sndfile snmp sou sounds soundtouch sox speedo speex spell spl spreadsheet sql sqlite3 srp ssl stlport stream subtitles subversion svg svgz swat symlink sysvipc t1lib tagwriting tcpd teamarena tetex tga theora thesaurus threads tidy tiff timidity tos transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts ucs2 udev unicode unzip urandom usb utf8 uudeview vcd vcdimager vfat video_cards_dummy video_cards_vga videos vidix vim-with-x vlm voice vorbis wddx web webdav webservices win32codecs withsamplescripts wma wma123 wmf wordperfect wv x11vnc x264 xatrix xft xine xml xml2 xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xmms xorg xosd xpm xprint xslt xv xvid yahoo yv12 zeroconf zip zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2006-07-14 13:21:52 UTC]

Also, please, don't change severity to critical.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-14 13:23:41 UTC]

- make sure that all FontPath lines in xorg.conf point to correct location (/usr/share/fonts/...)
- make sure you don't have RgbPath set in xorg.conf

[Comment 3 Cletus Lichte 2006-07-14 13:33:03 UTC]

All my FontPath lines are correct; they're the same as every other version and they've always worked.  My fonts are in /usr/share/fonts.  There is no RgbPath anywhere in my xorg.conf file.  I get no font errors in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.8.log, but I do get the following in /var/log/xdm.log:

FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

These fonts seem to be the ones that keep my xterm and emacs from working too.  Here are lines in my .Xdefaults:

xterm*font:10x20
emacs.font:8x16

These fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/misc it seems.

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2006-07-16 21:22:58 UTC]

So it works if you have media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed then?

[Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2006-07-26 23:39:06 UTC]

No reply and I can't reproduce the problem.  Reopen if you have better information.