Bug 147830 – Can't start gvim: Error: Aborting: no fontset found

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Skwar 2006-09-16 10:35:39 UTC]

When I try to start gvim, it errors out with this error message:

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: Aborting: no fontset found

What font is it trying to load?

I don't have a ~/.vimrc, ~/.gvimrc and also no /etc/vim/vimrc.local
or /etc/vim/gvimrc.local. /etc/vim/vimrc and /etc/vim/gvimrc are the
default files.

app-editors/gvim-7.0.91
app-editors/vim-7.0.91
app-editors/vim-core-7.0.91


alexander@blatt /etc/vim $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-suspend2-r6.044.no-kernel-alsa i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r6.044.no-kernel-alsa i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r5
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
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:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-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"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="        http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/  http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/     ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/     http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/       ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo         http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ "
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/Gentoo/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="/Gentoo/Portage/build"
PORTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/tree"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Gentoo/Portage/local-tree/misc"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt dlloader dri elibc_glibc esd fortran gdbm gnome gstreamer hal input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libedit libg++ linguas_de ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via xorg zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Alexander Skwar 2006-09-16 10:36:42 UTC]

Packages compiled with the following USE flags:

[binary   R   ] app-editors/gvim-7.0.91  USE="-acl (-aqua) bash-completion -cscope gnome -gpm -gtk -motif -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw nls perl python -ruby"
[binary   R   ] app-editors/vim-7.0.91  USE="-acl bash-completion -cscope -gpm -minimal -mzscheme nls perl python -ruby -vim-pager -vim-with-x"
[binary   R   ] app-editors/vim-core-7.0.91  USE="-acl bash-completion -livecd nls"

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-16 13:45:29 UTC]

Hmmm...

[Comment 3 Alexander Skwar 2006-09-16 22:06:06 UTC]

H

[Comment 4 Alexander Skwar 2006-09-16 22:06:06 UTC]

Hä?

"Resolved"?

I don't think so.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-17 00:19:45 UTC]

Hmmm indeed, this bugzilla habit of jumping on next open bug in the list is annoying like hell, sorry.

[Comment 6 Alexander Skwar 2006-09-17 00:29:32 UTC]

No problem.

My locale is:

alexander@blatt /Gentoo $ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I haven't got a ~/.Xdefaults file.

[Comment 7 Alexander Skwar 2006-09-17 10:41:26 UTC]

With 

    LANG=C LC_ALL=C gvim

I can start gvim just fine.

Please notice, that I had USE=-gtk set when I built gvim. When I set USE=gtk, I can start gvim also with my default locale.

[Comment 8 Mike Kelly (RETIRED) 2006-09-21 07:56:00 UTC]

Hmm... I get the feeling that the Athena toolkit isn't that good about handling UTF8, and that that is throwing it off.

Try running it as:
  LANG="de_DE" LC_ALL="de_DE" gvim

And see if that works properly.

[Comment 9 Mike Kelly (RETIRED) 2006-10-19 21:52:13 UTC]

Hmm, I haven't heard anything from the reporter in a month, and I can't think of anything more helpful to suggest. All I can think is that the basic X toolkit can't cope with UTF8, so either use LANG="de_DE" LC_ALL="de_DE" gvim, or use the gtk+ version instead.

[Comment 10 Jules Colding 2007-02-27 11:54:21 UTC]

I have the same problem. The solution I'm using is to run gvim as:

LC_ALL="en_US" gvim

I don't have USE=gtk but USE=gtk2.