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After a reboot today, to switch to 4.14.8-r1, x11-misc/xosview-1.19 |
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(installed last March) fails to launch with "xosview: display :0 cannot |
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load font 7x13bold" |
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7x13bold is from media-fonts/font-misc-misc - I have 1.1.2-r1 installed |
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12/16. I can't tell what changed in the font file, as |
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packages.gentoo.org has hardware problems, and fails on any search |
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attempt. font-misc-misc does include 7x13B, but I don't know for sure |
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if that is a valid alias, or if something changed since the last |
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version, 1.1.2, which was emerged in 2010! |
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Before today, I haven't rebooted since 12/6, so my first guess is some |
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problem with font-misc-misc. 7x13B is listed in both fonts.alias as |
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-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 and fonts.dir as |
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-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 in |
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/usr/share/fonts/misc, which differ only in the iso number. The latter |
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does show up in the output of xlsfonts, but not the former. Even |
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stranger, fonts-alias is much older than everything else in that |
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directory - from when I last emerged media-fonts/font-alias. Is this |
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perhaps a bug in fonts-alias which needs to be updated to reflect |
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changes in font naming in other packages? Reinstalling font-alias did |
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not help. |
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I then duplicated the line in fonts.alias, changing one of them to the |
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other iso number. That didn't help without restarting X, but after a |
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restart, xosview runs. (It now gives me a totally unrelated error - |
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but I'll deal with that one later.) |
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Should I file a bug against either font-misc-misc or against |
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font-alias, or do I have a local configuration error? |
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Thanks for suggestions. |
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Jack |