Debian Bug report logs - #562726
xboard: font problem, crash

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: yellowprotoss <yellowprotoss@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: xboard: font problem, crash

Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:47:08 +0100

Package: xboard
Version: 4.4.2-1
Severity: normal


i start xboard and get crashing error:
$ xboard


$ xboard
xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*


Not working


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xboard depends on:
ii  dpkg                      1.15.5.3       Debian package management system
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-2       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.6-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                    2:1.1.1-1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.3.2-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.8-1      X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.7-1      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xaw3dg                    1.5+E-17       Xaw3d widget set

Versions of packages xboard recommends:
ii  fairymax                      4.8m-1     xboard compatible chess and chess-
ii  xfonts-100dpi                 1:1.0.0-4  100 dpi fonts for X

Versions of packages xboard suggests:
ii  eterm [x-terminal-emulator]   0.9.5-2    Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.3.2-1  X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii  tilda [x-terminal-emulator]   0.09.6-2   terminal emulator with first perso
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   251-1      X terminal emulator

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Message #10 received at 562726@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "h.g. muller" <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>

To: 562726@bugs.debian.org

Subject: xboard: font problem, crash

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:29:07 +0100

I suppose the mentioned font must be in the recommended xfonts-100dpi package.
I don't think XBoard can run without an X-font. I am not sure why debian 
lists the fonts
as 'recommend' rather than 'depends'. I guess 'depends on A' means that it 
is absolutely
impossible that it would ever run without A being installed, under any 
conceivable
circumstances. And perhaps it is cnceivable that XBoard would run with some
other X-font package.

No one in his right mind would ever want to run XBoard with another font, 
though,
having to type something like

xboard -font "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -clockfont 
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

(with another font name) to accomplish that. This seems of another order than
saying that XBoard does not depend on any chess engine because you could
run it as game viewer through:

xboard -ncp

But anyway, the issue seems to depend purely on the Debian dependency
rules, and is not something we could fix up-stream.

H.G. Muller
XBoard developer

Message #15 received at 562726@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "h.g. muller" <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>

To: 562726@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: xboard: font problem, crash

Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:03:23 +0200

It has come to my attention that problems like this are often caused by the 
X-server font path not being set correctly. So the dependency mechanism 
does load the required font packages, and they do have the required fonts 
in them, but the X-server cannot fin them. The situation can be corrected 
by giving the command

xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/X11

(or wherever else your font packages are installed).

This problem does not seem to have anything to do with XBoard; if anything, 
it should count as a bug in the installation of the respective font packages.

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