From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xosview fails to launch with missing font 7x13bold
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 19:35:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171226033519.obpsrzuik5rb4rfn@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171226023046.2le75pom6ll3jxrv@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
[replying to self]
On 2017-12-25 18:30, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-12-23 18:09, Jack wrote:
>
> > After a reboot today, to switch to 4.14.8-r1, x11-misc/xosview-1.19
> > (installed last March) fails to launch with "xosview: display :0
> > cannot load font 7x13bold"
> >
> > 7x13bold is from media-fonts/font-misc-misc - I have 1.1.2-r1
> > installed 12/16. I can't tell what changed in the font file, as
> > packages.gentoo.org has hardware problems, and fails on any search
> > attempt. font-misc-misc does include 7x13B, but I don't know for
> > sure if that is a valid alias, or if something changed since the
> > last version, 1.1.2, which was emerged in 2010!
After taking a first look: have you perhaps switched off the nls USE
flag (or maybe the new profile did that)? I believe your symptoms are
compatible with this hypothesis.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-26 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-23 23:09 [gentoo-user] xosview fails to launch with missing font 7x13bold Jack
2017-12-26 2:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-26 3:35 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2017-12-28 17:28 ` Jack
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