Bug 302988 – games-board/xboard-4.4.1: X_OpenFont font error with size Medium

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2010-01-31 13:58:39 UTC]

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ xboard -size Medium
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:  20
  Current serial number in output stream:  21

"Small" and "Big" however works. I do not have a xorg.conf anymore (w/ an xorg.conf I've to set at least the basi font path and "Medium" would work too).


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2010-03-15 04:56:48 UTC]

pick a font from:

for d in $(xset q | sed -n '/^Font Path:/{n;s/,/ /g;p;q}'); do cat $d/fonts.dir; done | awk '{ print $2 }'

and pass it to xboard with -font

You're probably just missing the default font, but you can use whatever one you want.

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2010-03-15 10:00:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> and pass it to xboard with -font
> 
> You're probably just missing the default font, but you can use whatever one you
> want.

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ for d in $(xset q | sed -n '/^Font Path:/{n;s/,/ /g;p;q}'); do cat $d/fonts.dir 2>/dev/null; done | awk '{ print $2 }' | tail -n 1
-misc-console-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1
tfoerste@n22 ~ $ xboard -font -misc-console-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1
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:  20
  Current serial number in output stream:  21

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2010-03-19 02:29:29 UTC]

Give xboard-4.4.2 a try.

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2010-03-19 08:16:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Give xboard-4.4.2 a try.
> 
tried - same issue.

[Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2010-03-22 19:43:33 UTC]

resync, then emerge xboard again and restart your X server to make sure it's picking up the font.

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2010-03-22 20:07:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> resync, then emerge xboard again and restart your X server to make sure it's
> picking up the font.
> 
done, issue still exists.

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-22 20:14:21 UTC]

Worked fine here with only these fonts installed, 

media-fonts/corefonts-1-r4
media-fonts/dejavu-2.30
media-fonts/encodings-1.0.3-r1
media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1
media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.2
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.1
media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.0
media-fonts/freefont-ttf-20090104
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11

Having either one of media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi or media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi works

[Comment 8 Toralf Förster 2010-03-22 21:06:24 UTC]

Created attachment 224775 [details]
font list

(In reply to comment #7)
> Worked fine here with only these fonts installed, 
> 
upgraded to your font version s- no success

[Comment 9 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-01-31 09:07:01 UTC]

4.4.1 is long gone and it works fine for me.