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

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

On 2017.12.25 22:35, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> [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.

Yes, re-emerging font-misc-misc with nls allows xosview to start.  It  
about doubles the size of /usr/share/fonts/misc, but only from about  
2.7 to 5.1M.

However, as I said, I have not change -nls in my make.conf recently, so  
I'm not sure what else might have changed.  At this point, probably not  
worth any effort to pursue further.

Thanks for the hint.

Jack