[gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[John J. Foster]

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OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:

Warning: Cannot convert string
"-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
FontStruct

followed by about 10 million of these lines:

Warning:
    Name: textfield
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\61' not supported in font.  Discarded.

Before I restart KDE, does anybody know what this is all about?

Thanks,
festus
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[SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[John J. Foster]

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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
> FontStruct
> 
> followed by about 10 million of these lines:
> 
> Warning:
>     Name: textfield
>     Class: XmTextField
>     Character '\61' not supported in font.  Discarded.
> 
OK, I can reproduce this.

Open Firefox (www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4)
Navigate to
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ILN&product=N0Z&overlay=11101111&loop=yes

I can't tell for sure, but the .xsession-errors grows by about 10K with
every loop of the radar. Click on "Stop" to stop the loop, and the log
stops growing.

This is another issue that seems related to the xorg update, as I
usually have that page running constantly (with "AutoUpdate is ON").

Any ideas why this might be happening?

Thanks,
festus
-- 
It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.
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Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[Michael Crute]

On 7/3/06, John J. Foster <Gentoo-User@festus.150ml.com> wrote:
> OK, I can reproduce this.
>
> Open Firefox (www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4)
> Navigate to
> http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ILN&product=N0Z&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
>
> I can't tell for sure, but the .xsession-errors grows by about 10K with
> every loop of the radar. Click on "Stop" to stop the loop, and the log
> stops growing.
>
> This is another issue that seems related to the xorg update, as I
> usually have that page running constantly (with "AutoUpdate is ON").
>
> Any ideas why this might be happening?

This sounds like a font issue. I am running unstable X 7.1 and I don't
have any of these errors, I do however have quite a few fonts
installed.

I am running:
X Window System Version 7.1.0
Release Date: 22 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1
Build Date: 30 June 2006

With these font packages:
[I--] [  ] media-fonts/corefonts-1-r2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-bh-type1-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0 (0)
[I--] [ ~] media-fonts/font-util-1.0.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r2 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3 (1.0)
[I--] [ ~] x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] x11-libs/libXfont-1.1.0-r1 (0)
[I--] [ ~] x11-libs/libfontenc-1.0.2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] x11-proto/fontcacheproto-0.1.2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] x11-proto/fontsproto-2.0.2 (0)
[I--] [ ~] x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.1.2 (0)

Not sure if thats helpful but it may be a start.

-Mike

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Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[John J. Foster]

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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:59:17PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a font issue. I am running unstable X 7.1 and I don't
> have any of these errors, I do however have quite a few fonts
> installed.
> 
2 things here. First, I'm not sure why added SOLVED to the subject. I
just know how cause the problem. Second, I agree it's a font issue, but
am not sure what is different that before except xorg.

If someone has a pretty good clue what it could be, or just want's to
make some suggestions, I'll be happy to try them out. Otherwise I'll
just direct output to /dev/null intead of .xsesssion-errors. 

Thanks,
festus
-- 
It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.
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Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[Donnie Berkholz]

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John J. Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
>> OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:
>>
>> Warning: Cannot convert string
>> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
>> FontStruct
>>
>> followed by about 10 million of these lines:
>>
>> Warning:
>>     Name: textfield
>>     Class: XmTextField
>>     Character '\61' not supported in font.  Discarded.

Try installing the fonts it's complaining about, and add 'em to your
FontPath list in xorg.conf. This one looks like font-bh-100dpi or -75dpi.

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[John J. Foster]

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On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> John J. Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> >>
> >> Warning: Cannot convert string
> >> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
> >> FontStruct
> >>
> Try installing the fonts it's complaining about, and add 'em to your
> FontPath list in xorg.conf. This one looks like font-bh-100dpi or -75dpi.
> 
Thanks alot Donnie, media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi did the trick. Out of
curiosity, how did you know which font package might be correct?

festus
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clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.
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Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

[Donnie Berkholz]

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John J. Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> John J. Foster wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
>>>> Warning: Cannot convert string
>>>> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
>>>> FontStruct
>>>>
>> Try installing the fonts it's complaining about, and add 'em to your
>> FontPath list in xorg.conf. This one looks like font-bh-100dpi or -75dpi.
>>
> Thanks alot Donnie, media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi did the trick. Out of
> curiosity, how did you know which font package might be correct?

The font token starts with the foundry it's from -- b&h. This translates
to bh in the package name. It's specified using the old core fonts setup
(the foo-blah-*-foo-140-*-etc), so I know it's probably a bitmap font,
meaning 75dpi or 100dpi. It's not lucidatypewriter but just lucida, so
I'm able to eliminate those font-bh-lucidatypewriter-* packages. That
just leaves font-bh-{100,75}dpi.

Thanks,
Donnie


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