Bug 521786

Summary:	media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.3 - /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias header causes trouble loading font "*": X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Orange <crazycasta>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	530652
Attachments:	Program to show failure

Description Alex Orange 2014-08-30 23:11:26 UTC

The line at the top of /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias:

! $Xorg: fonts.alias,v 1.3 2000/08/21 16:42:31 coskrey Exp $

causes trouble if an application tries to load any font (font name "*"). See attached fail.c for an example. I'm guessing that because the "!" matches "*" that it tries to load the rest of the line as a font name, and fails as it's obviously not a font name. This is not just a contrived example, Synopsis CosmosScope tries to load the "*" font and fails, fail.c is just a short example to duplicate the problem.

Removing the line from the top of fonts.alias solves the problem. I'm not sure how the fonts.alias files are generated, so I'm hoping someone else can come up with the long term fix, at the moment I'm just deleting that line from the file and everything works.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gcc -o fail fail.c -lX11
2. ./fail
3.
Actual Results:  
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:  6
  Current serial number in output stream:  7

Expected Results:  
No output, just goes back to prompt.

Comment 1 Alex Orange 2014-09-01 03:04:13 UTC

Created attachment 384036 [details]
Program to show failure

Oops, I guess I forgot to upload this the other day.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-01-05 18:52:35 UTC

We need to apply this upstream patch:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/alias/commit/?id=725970d993e44a2760b91bfdee7d6c2af61bffd2

Maintainers, do you let me to commit it? Do you want to also apply some other newer fixes from upstream?
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/alias/log/

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-01-15 12:58:39 UTC

+*font-alias-1.0.3-r1 (15 Jan 2015)
+
+  15 Jan 2015; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
+  +files/font-alias-1.0.3-cvs-tags.patch, +font-alias-1.0.3-r1.ebuild:
+  Remove CVS tags (#521786 by Alex Orange)
+