X2Go Bug report logs - #884
nxagent fails to run with "Could not open default font 'fixed'"

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Package: nx-libs; Maintainer for nx-libs is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>;

Reported by: devsk <internet_everyone@yahoo.com>

Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:40:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed-upstream

Found in version 3.5.0.30

Fixed in version 3.5.99.4

Done: Juri Grabowski <x2go@jugra.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/issues/84

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Yes, I am talking about Gentoo specific packaging issue. I have filed 

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559370

to track it down. As I mentioned, the specific files being talked about are the font files in /usr/share/fonts/misc (/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc on Ubuntu) which are character encodings specific e.g. 9x15-ISO8859-*.pcf.gz. nxagent can not load a fixed size font '9x15' without the presence of these files. It looks like these are abandoned by modern X code because both Xorg and Xvnc work fine without these files.

-devsk



On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 11:25 AM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de> wrote:
On 02.09.2015 11:00 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:

> On  Mi 02 Sep 2015 03:32:56 CEST, devsk wrote:
> 
>> I finally decoded this issue. I can't believe it. The reason why its  
>> not able to load the default font and default cursor was that  
>> language specific fonts were missing from the /usr/share/fonts/misc  
>> folder. Those are missing because I have '-nls' in my global USE  
>> flags.
>>
>> I had to spin up an Ubuntu 14.04 VM to figure this out...:) This is  
>> a packaging bug. nx package on Gentoo should force the 'nls' USE  
>> flag on media-fonts/font-misc-misc because without that nxagent is  
>> completely broken. I wonder how Xorg and Xvnc are fine without  
>> those! May be there is legacy code in nxagent which needs removal...:)
>>
>> Thanks for all the help everyone! It was a pleasure dealing with you  
>> all. I hope the x2go community flourishes more and more everyday!
>> -devsk
> 
> Please can you be more precise? Where do you set the -nls flag and how  
> can we get this fixed upstream in nx-libs?

He's talking about the Gentoo-specific USE flag feature, which lets you disable
or enable features.

No, we cannot do anything about this.

However, there is another "bug report" pending for OpenSuSE, reproducing this
issue. (-> "x2go on openSUSE")

This might be a related packaging issue, so it would be very interesting to know
what missing file exactly caused this issue.



Mihai

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