Bug 295707 – Stabilize games-board/xboard-4.4.1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-12-04 20:02:51 UTC]

Please mark xboard-4.4.1.ebuild stable.

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2009-12-06 19:52:54 UTC]

Created attachment 212272 [details]
emerge --info output

Crashes on startup with X error: 

huettel@pinacolada ~ $ 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:  16
  Current serial number in output stream:  17
huettel@pinacolada ~ $

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-12-06 21:20:22 UTC]

Then you should tell it what font you want to use with the -font option.

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2009-12-06 21:30:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Then you should tell it what font you want to use with the -font option.
> 

Come on, that falls in the category "insane enough default behaviour such that it should be fixed". I mean, if you start it from the desktop menu you dont even get the error message...

Anyone knows what the default font is? Maybe the package should depend on it...

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-12-06 22:17:53 UTC]

There's no reason to force the user to install a particular font if they don't want to.  The fact that you don't already have any helvetica fonts installed is the insane bit.

[Comment 5 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2009-12-09 22:39:26 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2009-12-19 18:02:35 UTC]

I suffer the same problem under my amd64 system:
$ 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

and this is the first app I see failing due that font missing :-/

[Comment 7 Martin Walch 2009-12-20 02:39:29 UTC]

Please, do not keep it this way.

Maybe there could be a font pulled in as dependency unless a (new) USE flag is explicitely unset? Something like IUSE="+defaultfont Xaw3d zippy"?

On the other hand - could it happen that the user will reconfigure the default X fonts, causing a totally different font to be needed?

Anyway, IMO the status quo is bad, as it forces every user who wants to use xboard and has not installed a suitable font, to figure out why it won't start and what to do to make it work. Depending on the knowledge of the user this might take an hour or even make the user give up.

[Comment 8 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-12-20 10:52:22 UTC]

There's no doubt the package could be improved but this isn't new behavior.  It's not a regression that needs to hold up stabilization.

[Comment 9 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2009-12-31 14:24:30 UTC]

ppc64 done

[Comment 10 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2010-01-11 17:34:31 UTC]

alpha keyword dropped

[Comment 11 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2010-01-23 15:51:00 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 12 Pacho Ramos 2010-03-19 14:02:13 UTC]

Are you ok to go with 4.4.2 instead?

[Comment 13 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2010-04-18 05:25:27 UTC]

pick up bug #315911 instead.