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
