Bug 146389 – app-editors/gvim-7.0.17 and zenity exit with "No fonts found" on startup

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Peter `MathFox' Roozemaal 2006-09-05 06:20:49 UTC]

When starting gvim on a headless server (DISPLAY set to my workstation) it exits with the following message:

$ gvim
No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
library is not correctly configured. You may need to
edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
page and on http://fontconfig.org

This happens when gvim is configured with gtk; it runs (not entirely fine) with a basix X widget set. The gentoo box doesn't have any fonts installed (fontinfo will likely be different from those that the X server uses.)

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
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="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dlloader dri fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk ipv6 isdnlog libg++ mmap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl postgres ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd tetex truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode xorg zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Peter `MathFox' Roozemaal 2006-09-06 03:36:18 UTC]

The text of the error message can be found in /usr/lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.so which belongs to the x11-libs/pango-1.12.3 package.

[Comment 2 Mike Kelly (RETIRED) 2006-09-13 23:15:55 UTC]

Are you able to run any other gtk+ apps on this server successfully? I suspect this is an issue with gtk+ more than with gvim. Try this:

$ sudo emerge zenity
$ zenity --info

If you see a popup box that says "All updates are complete.", then the issue is more likely with gvim, if not, than the issue is more likely with gtk (of which pango is a component).

[Comment 3 Peter `MathFox' Roozemaal 2006-09-15 02:41:40 UTC]

Yes, this is a gtk+ (blame it on pango) bug. zenity --info gives the same error message.

The function pango_fc_font_map_get_patterns in pango-1.12.3, file pango/pangofc-fontmap.c prints the message and performs an exit.

[Comment 4 Mike Kelly (RETIRED) 2006-09-18 07:47:11 UTC]

This seems to be more a problem with gtk+ / pango, not with vim, so I'm assigning it to the gnome herd.

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2007-03-04 23:12:15 UTC]

I can't reproduce this bug with zenity (from gnome 2.18 though). If anyone could try again with gnome 2.16 to confirm either way.

Thanks :)

[Comment 6 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-03-22 14:44:05 UTC]

Please try again with either Gnome 2.20 (current stable) or 2.22 (currently moving from overlay to portage)

Thanks