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

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Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#884: Bug#884: nxagent aborts session with 'Could
 not open default font 'fixed''
From: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com>
To: devsk <internet_everyone@yahoo.com>, 884@bugs.x2go.org
Cc: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
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A quick look at some distros where nxagent works.

Out of the 5 dirs listed:

Ubuntu 14.04 contains:
/usr/share/fonts/ (no "misc" under it)
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/

RHEL 7.1 contains:
/usr/share/fonts/ (no "misc" under it)
/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:21 PM, devsk <internet_everyone@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The folder /usr/X11R6 hasn't existed on Gentoo for years now (since move to Xorg). Does the folder /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts exist on other distros?
>
>
> Also, the code seems to be making an attempt to look for "ALTERNATE" font paths and many of those paths are there:
>
> $ ls -al /usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.{alias,dir}
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3154 Apr 11 08:16 /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/fonts.alias
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17828 Jun  2 07:14 /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3066 Apr 11 08:16 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.alias
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17280 Jun  2 07:15 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2000 Jun  2 07:12 /usr/share/fonts/OTF/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1689 Jun  2 07:14 /usr/share/fonts/Speedo/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10298 Jun  2 07:10 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13319 Jun  2 07:15 /usr/share/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44001 Apr 11 08:07 /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21736 Apr 10 17:51 /usr/share/fonts/croscorefonts/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3234 Apr 11 08:16 /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/fonts.alias
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6005 Jun  2 07:15 /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43905 Apr 10 17:51 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26289 Apr 11 08:07 /usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16664 Apr 11 08:08 /usr/share/fonts/libertine/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6209 Apr 11 08:16 /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6721 Jun  2 07:15 /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31892 Apr 11 08:07 /usr/share/fonts/roboto/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5053 Apr 11 08:08 /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/fonts.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43334 Apr 10 17:51 /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/fonts.dir
>
> -devsk
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 9:13 AM, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> On  Di 02 Jun 2015 17:49:24 CEST, devsk wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As per suggestion I built the code from
>> https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs. And I still run into the
>> same issue.
>>
>> Does anybody here know that part of the code (snippet in the report)?
>
>
> Please take a look at [1] and make sure either of those paths exists
> on your system.
>
> You need the fixed fonts in the misc/ fontdir.
>
> Is everything in place there?
>
> Mike
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/blob/3.6.x/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/Font.c#L64
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