[gentoo-user] xosview fails to launch with missing font 7x13bold

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

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!

Before today, I haven't rebooted since 12/6, so my first guess is some  
problem with font-misc-misc.  7x13B is listed in both fonts.alias as  
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 and fonts.dir as  
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 in  
/usr/share/fonts/misc, which differ only in the iso number.  The latter  
does show up in the output of xlsfonts, but not the former.  Even  
stranger, fonts-alias is much older than everything else in that  
directory - from when I last emerged media-fonts/font-alias.  Is this  
perhaps a bug in fonts-alias which needs to be updated to reflect  
changes in font naming in other packages?  Reinstalling font-alias did  
not help.

I then duplicated the line in fonts.alias, changing one of them to the  
other iso number.  That didn't help without restarting X, but after a  
restart, xosview runs.  (It now gives me a totally unrelated error -  
but I'll deal with that one later.)

Should I file a bug against either font-misc-misc or against  
font-alias, or do I have a local configuration error?

Thanks for suggestions.

Jack