Bug 542154 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.1-r1 breaks custom Files sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description gentoo-user 2015-03-04 17:17:37 UTC]

After upgrading from x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.1 to x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.1-r1,
X stopped correctly rendering terminus in certain applications (mainly dmenu and sxiv).
I include the fonts directory for terminus with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-fonts.conf which contains:

Section "Files"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/terminus/"
EndSection

Manually adding the FontPath with `xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/terminus; xset fp rehash' does not fix the issue.

Downgrading to x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.1 and restarting X fixes terminus font rendering.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.1-r1
2. Restart X11
3. FontPaths added in Files sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d stop working correctly
Actual Results:  
Applications using the terminus font start displaying white squares instead of the text they should be displaying.

Expected Results:  
Applications using the terminus font display the text they should be displaying.

Note: this appears to only happen when using terminus as a regular x font,
ie with '-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*', and does not occur when using
terminus as an xft font with 'xft:Terminus'. Also, terminus appears to display fine
in rxvt-unicode. Eg when launched as `urxvt -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*''.

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2015-03-06 05:59:02 UTC]

Xorg.0.log, please.

[Comment 2 gentoo-user 2015-03-06 14:39:31 UTC]

Created attachment 398240 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Attached Xorg.0.log output

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2015-03-06 14:55:49 UTC]

[    59.163] (**) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/terminus/,
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/

Looks fine. Is that with broken xorg-server version or after downgrade?

[Comment 4 gentoo-user 2015-03-06 16:14:18 UTC]

Broken. I can attach the Xorg.0.log after downgrading if you want.

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2015-03-06 17:00:58 UTC]

Yes, I would appreciate that, for good comparison.

[Comment 6 gentoo-user 2015-03-06 18:37:08 UTC]

While downgrading xorg-server, I noticed that Xorg.0.log didn't have the
"FontPath set to [..]" lines, so I decided to investigate further and noticed
that the applications that were supposed to be using terminus as an x font (as
opposed to xft) were using fallback fonts instead. This clued me in to that the
problem didn't actually lie with the xorg-server update but rather with the
terminus-font-4.39-r1 update (which didn't manifest until I restarted X after
the xorg-server update).

In short:
Problem does not lie with the x11-base/xorg-server update. After ironing out
the issues with terminus, setting FontPath in a Files section in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d works.
Sorry for the noise.