[gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

[gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

[Valmor de Almeida]

Hello,

After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5
update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also
when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get
additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?

Thanks,

--
Valmor


Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

[gentoo-user] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

[Valmor de Almeida]

Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5
> update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also
> when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get
> additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Valmor
> 
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> xterm: cannot load font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> xterm: cannot load font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
> xterm: cannot load font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
> xterm: cannot load font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
> xterm: cannot load font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
> xterm: cannot load font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
> 
> 

Just to add to the info above; from Xorg.0.log

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
	built-ins
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"


Thanks,

--
Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida
<val.gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5
> update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also
> when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get
> additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?

Maybe re-emerge the fonts that you have installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida
> <val.gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5
>> update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also
>> when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get
>> additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?
>
> Maybe re-emerge the fonts that you have installed.

And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
having problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

[Mats Persson]

Paul Hartman skrev:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida
>> <val.gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5
>>> update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also
>>> when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get
>>> additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages?
>> Maybe re-emerge the fonts that you have installed.
> 
> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
> having problems.
> 

I had the same problem with fonts in xterm. I had the errors:
   Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
   xterm: cannot load font 7x14

The solution for me was to emerge the media-fonts/font-misc-misc package.

It seems that xorg-server-1.5.3 doesn't depend on this, unlike older
xorg-server versions. The fonts dependencies has moved to the newer 
x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 package.

/Mats Persson

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

[Valmor de Almeida]

Paul Hartman wrote:

> 
> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
> having problems.
> 
> 
It was not installed. Now xterm is happy.

Thanks,

--
Valmor

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> 
>> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
>> having problems.
>>
>>
> It was not installed. Now xterm is happy.
> 
> Thanks,

Hmm, how can that be?  It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

[Valmor de Almeida]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
>>> having problems.
>>>
>>>
>> It was not installed. Now xterm is happy.
>>
>> Thanks,
> 
> Hmm, how can that be?  It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11.
> 
> 
> 
My xorg has been acting strange since the update to 1.5. Little problems
here and there. As of now I need font-misc-misc emerged into world.
Therefore

-> equery depends font-misc-misc
[ Searching for packages depending on font-misc-misc... ]


There were other posts in this list with the same problem.

--
Valmor

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>>> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
>>>> having problems.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It was not installed. Now xterm is happy.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>> Hmm, how can that be?  It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11.
>>
>>
>>
> My xorg has been acting strange since the update to 1.5. Little problems
> here and there. As of now I need font-misc-misc emerged into world.
> Therefore
> 
> -> equery depends font-misc-misc
> [ Searching for packages depending on font-misc-misc... ]
> 
> 
> There were other posts in this list with the same problem.

Weird.  Here's mine:

   equery depends font-misc-misc
    * Searching for font-misc-misc ...
   x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 (>=media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0)

How can that be?  Do you actually have x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 installed? 
  If not, I can imagine many problems popping up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

[Valmor de Almeida]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>>>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not
>>>>> having problems.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It was not installed. Now xterm is happy.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>> Hmm, how can that be?  It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> My xorg has been acting strange since the update to 1.5. Little problems
>> here and there. As of now I need font-misc-misc emerged into world.
>> Therefore
>>
>> -> equery depends font-misc-misc
>> [ Searching for packages depending on font-misc-misc... ]
>>
>>
>> There were other posts in this list with the same problem.
> 
> Weird.  Here's mine:
> 
>   equery depends font-misc-misc
>    * Searching for font-misc-misc ...
>   x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 (>=media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0)
> 
> How can that be?  Do you actually have x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 installed?
>  If not, I can imagine many problems popping up.
> 
> 
> 
No I am using the "stable" 7.2

*  x11-base/xorg-x11
      Latest version available: 7.2
      Latest version installed: 7.2
      Size of files: 0 kB
      Homepage:      http://xorg.freedesktop.org
      Description:   An X11 implementation maintained by the X.Org
Foundation (meta package)
      License:       as-is

I typically try to stick with the stable version of packages specially
when dealing with xorg. I wonder whether other problems I am having are
related to the version of xorg-x11 I am using.

Thanks,

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Valmor