In bug 375407 the amd64 keyword of all the games-board/xboard has been dropped, because games-board/xboard-4.5.2a fails with archtesters. Henceforth here is the bug to track the breakage. Could Agostino Sarubbo, Ian Delaney, Blain Anderson and Elijah El Lazkani please report in more detail what problems they had and which useflags the tested? It looks to me (I am not a tester), I stress, *looks* like the problem could occur only without USE=default-font (which is on by default) and then the enotice says what to do (the package needs some command line arguments). Moreover, the problem seems not amd64-specific. When the trouble is sorted out, please rekeyword the package.
Any combination of use flag produces the error: ago@amd64box ~ $ xboard xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
I can reproduce the problem by uninstalling media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi and media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi, regenerating "/usr/share/fonts/{75,100}dpi/fonts.{scale,dir}" (by, for instance, emerging any other 75- and 100-DPI font), logging out and back in, and then emerging games-board/xboard (any version). With USE=default-font, it pulls media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi, but doesn't say that it needs a re-login. After logging out and back in, everything works (and I can re-emerge media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi to conclude the testing and restore a working system). Long story short: could you please emerge xboard, log out and back in, and then report if it works? For me it does. I think two new bugs have surfaced. First, all X fonts should suggest a re-login (an X restart) for them to work (so that xlsfonts would list them, for instance). Secondly, fonts should update fonts.{scale,dir} not only after installation, but also after uninstallation. Currently the "global fontcache" for Fontconfig is updated, but the index files in /usr/share/fonts are not; xlsfonts still lists the already missing fonts and xboard gives a different error (this is the correct behaviour): 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: 13 Current serial number in output stream: 14 I am going to file separate bugs for those issues. A quick fix would be for the xboard ebuild to announce that if fonts are updated or installed one needs a re-login.
Ok, I found the problem. This ebuild does not pull in media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi that needs to execute xboard. So with this xboard starts as well. I think that we close this as WONTFIX and proceed in a stabilization bug. @games Please update and close.
amd64: seems that the re-login did the trick. It will fail to start with the fonts error if default-fonts is not enabled so if there is no use for it without that flag I would suggest to mask it in enabled mode. Another suggestion is adding a message to the user telling them that a re-login is needed other than the one asking them to add themselves to games.
It accepts both media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi and media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi with 100dpi taking precedence and looking better, so 100dpi in the dependencies is enough. USE=-default-font is for those who have chosen wholly different fonts in their .xboardrc or command line.
I've now filed bug 384685 (as a blocker) about adding the re-login warning to the fonts (xboard is probably not the only application affected: even xlsfonts shows the difference), and bug 384649 about updating fonts.scale and fonts.dir on uninstallation of fonts (so that fonts could be removed more straightforwardly and bugs such as this one could be reproduced more easily).
Guys, check Bug #408027 , maybe this is fixed in the new version 4.6.0 , I haven't found time to check though.
(In reply to comment #3) > Ok, I found the problem. > > This ebuild does not pull in media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi that needs to > execute xboard. So with this xboard starts as well. > > I think that we close this as WONTFIX and proceed in a stabilization bug. > > > @games > > Please update and close. As it wasn't handled in bug #375407 i'd suggest to rekeyword xboard here.
(In reply to comment #8) > As it wasn't handled in bug #375407 i'd suggest to rekeyword xboard here. again: ago@amd64box ~ $ xboard Unable to create font set for -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.
Thanks for testing; you are seeing a new bug! >=games-board/xboard-4.6.0 should have an RDEPEND of "default-font? ( media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi[nls] media-fonts/font-misc-misc[nls] )". This is again nothing amd64-specific. I am not sure if the "nls" useflag is needed unconditionally, but for me xboard does not start otherwise. And, as told in bug 384685, one should either run "xset fp rehash" or re-login after installing or uninstalling Xorg fonts. Perhaps the xboard ebuild should additionally remind that.
I've filed bug 419751 about the dependencies.
