Bug 297554 – games-board/xboard-4.4.*: xboard doesn't find default font and fails to start

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Pacho Ramos 2009-12-19 18:09:03 UTC]

I get:
$ xboard 
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:  12
  Current serial number in output stream:  13

If it requires a font to be present on the system, it should depend on it or use a different (and more common) font by default (or maybe fallback to a different one)

Thanks

Portage 2.1.7.15 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.32-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3200+-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r2
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-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 /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests autoaddcvs ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict test unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org"
LANG="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/suka /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 applet avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdinstall cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx daap dbus djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss encode evo exif fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick java jpeg kdehiddenvisibility kpathsea latex libnotify lyx lzma mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network network-cron nls nptl nptlonly ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs t1lib tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vcd vorbis webkit x264 xattr xcb xinetd xml xmp xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-12-19 20:32:42 UTC]

You can specify whatever font you want on the command-line.  There's no reason to force a specific font to be installed.  ... and Helvetica *is* pretty common.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2009-12-19 20:45:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You can specify whatever font you want on the command-line.  There's no reason
> to force a specific font to be installed.  ... and Helvetica *is* pretty
> common.
> 

It doesn't seem to be that common on a gnome desktop system :-/, what ebuild should install that fonts?

Thanks for the info

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-12-19 21:45:01 UTC]

font-adobe has a helvetica font for example, which is pulled in by x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r1

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2009-12-20 10:42:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> font-adobe has a helvetica font for example, which is pulled in by
> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r1
> 

I don't have xorg-x11 installed, it explains the problem then. But, please, take care that xorg-x11 is only a meta package that installs _optional_  xorg related packages also, as can be seen in:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291421

then, I think that you shouldn't think that "commonly" that font is installed. What about simply adding a "elog" message suggesting font-adobe installation or running xboard with "-font" parameter? 

I think that it could satisfy most of people :-)

Thanks a lot

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2009-12-31 15:55:57 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You can specify whatever font you want on the command-line.  
I'm really interested in an example of such a command line b/c I made the experience that w/o a minimal xorg.conf (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-808987-highlight-.html) xboard never ever starts due to the mentioned error.