On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 09:50:36AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Control: severity -1 minor > > Hi Thomas, > > at first thanks a lot for your patience. > > Am Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 08:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Thomas Dickey: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > > > I need to admit that the issue "vanished" on my workhorse laptop which is > > > nice on one hand but having an explanation would be even nicer. ;-) > > > I've now tried the other laptop with the same problem: > > > > > > $ dpkg --get-selections | grep terminus > > > fonts-terminus install > > > $ xlsfonts | grep terminus > > > > That might be one of these possibilities: > > > > a) the X configuration (seen with "xset -q") has something amiss with > > the fontpath (see attached example from my Debian/testing). > > There was no attachment but here is mine:
sorry - will do that, for the record > $ xset -q > Keyboard Control: > auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 > XKB indicators: > 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off > 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off > 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off > 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off > 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off > auto repeat delay: 400 repeat rate: 20 > auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf > fedfffefffedffff > 9fffffffffffffff > fff7ffffffffffff > bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 > Pointer Control: > acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 > Screen Saver: > prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes > timeout: 180 cycle: 600 > Colors: > default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff > Font Path: > > /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 0 Suspend: 300 Off: 600 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > > > b) updates to the bitmap font-directories have to be finished using > > mkfontdir (part of xfonts-utils). I've seen occasional comments > > where package updates didn't work as intended. > > > > Either way, "dpkg -L xfonts-terminus" tells me that the relevant files > > are in > > > > /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc > > > > If xset reports that's in the font path, I'd try (based on the manpage) > > > > sudo mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc > > Done. > > > or (by habit, since long ago it ignored the parameter...) > > > > cd /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc > > sudo mkfontdir > > > > and restart X. > > After restarting X xterm is starting properly now. It somehow seems > that the mkfontdir call changed the game. Unfortunately we do not > really know what might have caused the issue. As I said I would also > have loved if xterm would not have crashed. agreed (I did try reproducing the crash for the case where the font was missing, but so far unsuccessful). > In any case I consider the severity of the bug as lower now and have > set it to minor. I'll leave it to your decision whether you consider > it closed or some helpful resource to find a way to avoid the issue. > > Kind regards and thanks again for your help > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: on 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 20
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 600 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 600 Suspend: 0 Off: 900
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
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