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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xosview fails to launch with missing font 7x13bold
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 03:35:39
Message-Id: 20171226033519.obpsrzuik5rb4rfn@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: xosview fails to launch with missing font 7x13bold by Ian Zimmerman
1 [replying to self]
2
3 On 2017-12-25 18:30, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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5 > On 2017-12-23 18:09, Jack wrote:
6 >
7 > > After a reboot today, to switch to 4.14.8-r1, x11-misc/xosview-1.19
8 > > (installed last March) fails to launch with "xosview: display :0
9 > > cannot load font 7x13bold"
10 > >
11 > > 7x13bold is from media-fonts/font-misc-misc - I have 1.1.2-r1
12 > > installed 12/16. I can't tell what changed in the font file, as
13 > > packages.gentoo.org has hardware problems, and fails on any search
14 > > attempt. font-misc-misc does include 7x13B, but I don't know for
15 > > sure if that is a valid alias, or if something changed since the
16 > > last version, 1.1.2, which was emerged in 2010!
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18 After taking a first look: have you perhaps switched off the nls USE
19 flag (or maybe the new profile did that)? I believe your symptoms are
20 compatible with this hypothesis.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xosview fails to launch with missing font 7x13bold Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>