Bug 820377 – games-roguelike/angband-4.2.2-r1 fails to start ("angband: Couldn't load the requested font. (10x20)") until restart

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description hkBst 2021-10-26 15:31:12 UTC]

I installed games-roguelike/angband-4.2.2-r1 and when trying to run it:
$ angband 
angband: Couldn't load the requested font. (10x20)

As a dependency of angband media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.2-r2 was also installed, which has the info:
  "Installed fonts changed. Run 'xset fp rehash' if you are using non-fontconfig applications.".
So I installed xset and ran that command, but it did not help. Angband still fails to start in the same way.

[Comment 1 hkBst 2021-10-26 15:33:14 UTC]

Not sure if this is related, but:

$ angband -msdl2
angband: cant render surface for cache in font '8x13x.fon': Couldn't find glyph

[Comment 2 hkBst 2021-10-26 16:46:26 UTC]

After installing xlsfonts:
$ xlsfonts -fn "10*"
xlsfonts: pattern "10*" unmatched

So this shows that indeed the requested font is not available...

[Comment 3 hkBst 2021-10-26 16:49:21 UTC]

But:
$ equery f media-fonts/font-misc-misc | grep '10x20.pcf'
/usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20.pcf.gz

shows that the required font is present.

[Comment 4 hkBst 2021-10-26 16:54:26 UTC]

$ grep '10x20.pcf' /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.dir 
10x20.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1

Shows the requested font is present in the fonts.dir file

[Comment 5 hkBst 2021-10-26 17:25:07 UTC]

From my Xorg.0.log:h.

[    27.845] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/misc/".
[    27.845]    Entry deleted from font path.
[    27.845]    (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/misc/").


So that seems to be the problem. I wonder why mkfontdir was not run if it is needed.

[Comment 6 hkBst 2021-10-26 17:35:27 UTC]

Link to the same issue in the Xorg log (but from 2005): https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-413454-view-next.html

[Comment 7 hkBst 2021-10-27 06:04:30 UTC]

After a restart "angband [-mx11]" works (but it would be good to eliminate the need for that). Xorg.0.log now shows:

[    27.920] (==) FontPath set to:
        /usr/share/fonts/misc/

But
$ angband -msdl2
angband: cant render surface for cache in font '8x13x.fon': Couldn't find glyph

[Comment 8 Tee KOBAYASHI 2021-10-27 08:18:29 UTC]

I believe that the X11 case and the SDL2 case are not much related to each other.

I have filed a separate issue for the SDL2 case: https://bugs.gentoo.org/820500

[Comment 9 hkBst 2021-10-27 11:20:57 UTC]

(In reply to Tee KOBAYASHI from comment #8)
> I believe that the X11 case and the SDL2 case are not much related to each
> other.
> 
> I have filed a separate issue for the SDL2 case:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/820500

Thanks, that seems to correspond with what I am seeing in the sdl2 case, will comment there.

[Comment 10 Stefan Strogin 2021-11-08 22:06:50 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 820500 ***