Bug 6971

Summary:	Xprt does not find 'fixed' font
Product:	xprint	Reporter:	paul <ephraim_owns>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Roland Mainz <roland.mainz>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	high	CC:	MostAwesomedude
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PowerPC
OS:	Mac OS X (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description paul 2006-05-19 20:45:49 UTC

[shadesofgray:/private/tmp] paul% ./xprint diag
##### Diag start Fri May 19 03:28:35 PDT 2006.
## General info start.
  PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
  TZ=""
  LANG=""
  uname -a="Darwin shadesofgray 6.8 Darwin Kernel Version 6.8: Wed Sep 10
15:20:55 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.49.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc"
  uname -s="Darwin"
  uname -p="powerpc"
  uname: illegal option -- i
  usage: uname [-amnprsv]
  uname -i=""
  uname -m="Power Macintosh"
  has /etc/SuSE-release ... no
  has /etc/redhat-release ... no
  has /etc/debian_version ... no
  ps: illegal option -- f
  usage: ps [-aChjlmMrSTuvwx] [-O|o fmt] [-p pid] [-t tty] [-U user]
  [-N system] [-W swap]
  ps [-L]
  how many Xprt servers are running ...       0
## General info end.
## Testing font paths start.
  #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" ...
  #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" ...
  #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" ...
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.dir has cursor font.
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.dir has fixed font.
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.alias has cursor font.
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.alias has fixed font.
  #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" ...
  #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" ...
## Testing font paths end.
##### Diag End Fri May 19 03:28:48 PDT 2006.
[shadesofgray:/private/tmp] paul% ./xprint start
./xprint: Old server registry found, cleaning-up...
Stopping Xprint servers: Xprt.
Starting Xprint servers: Xprt.
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
sh: nawk: command not found
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
Xprint server pid=1604 done, exitcode=0.

also, reading the faq on xprint.mozdev.org
(http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html#id2879415 &
http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html#id2879513)
checked for a fixed font

[shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# pwd
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
[shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# grep ^fixed fonts.alias 
fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
[shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# grep
misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 fonts.dir 
6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-10
6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-11
6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-13
6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-14
6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-16
[shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# ls -l 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz
6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4637 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4551 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4409 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4689 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4502 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4614 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4547 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz
[shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# 

the xserver gives me no trouble with an 'xterm -fn fixed'

i've regenerated the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files over and over again, and it
still refuses to start

Comment 1 paul 2006-05-31 19:44:23 UTC

i guess this is a problem with Xprt being linked with a dynamic libXfont as
opposed to a static one

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00292.html
that seems to be related

Comment 2 Lan Liu 2007-08-17 23:55:29 UTC

Hi,

I don't know whether the problem has been solved yet.

I found same X-Win can not start problem these days. After some trace, I found the problem is due to fontdir.c in libXfont can not handle fonts.dir properly, if it is in DOS (LF/CR) format.

Which means, when you install XWin font componets by setup.exe, if select "DOS / text" mode in "Default Text File Type" setting, it will cause the problem. Because the fonts.dir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, which is genertaed by post shell, will be the LF/CR format.

Comment 3 Corbin Simpson 2011-09-13 12:51:56 UTC

Closing WONTFIX because nobody cares about Xprint. Reopen if you plan to address this bug.

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