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* [gentoo-user] Re: xosview fails to launch with missing font 7x13bold
  @ 2017-12-26  3:35 99%   ` Ian Zimmerman
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From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2017-12-26  3:35 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

[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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