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

version graph

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

Full log

Message #147 received at 884@bugs.x2go.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Received: (at 884) by bugs.x2go.org; 2 Sep 2015 18:25:47 +0000
From ionic@ionic.de  Wed Sep  2 20:25:45 2015
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on
	ymir.das-netzwerkteam.de
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_DKIM_INVALID,
	URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2
Received: from Root24.de (powered.by.root24.eu [5.135.3.88])
	by ymir.das-netzwerkteam.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B2C5DA83
	for <884@bugs.x2go.org>; Wed,  2 Sep 2015 20:25:45 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from nopileos.local (home.ionic.de [217.92.117.31])
	by mail.ionic.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EECAB4F0963E;
	Wed,  2 Sep 2015 20:25:43 +0200 (CEST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=ionic.de; s=default;
	t=1441218344; bh=SR3MSDiZLqhDhNI1RFbt49s5GpF5qyEOtMflxE4jFl0=;
	h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From;
	b=azgKH3IVKCCzWk71YMBmJWEML3HCHr+wAbj0B97uGpt3gaId150NBMYaAcQgeqVEG
	 C1bgL3Fed7gsCq0cgUzPX3X0NjkG28uvDVI8Z6gU20vecgH65kDOme/NThNd8DTo1u
	 md3EIvvBr8tiSxZ5GGOmvca5POmS18WgdN+998N8=
Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] nxagent aborts session with 'Could not open default
 font 'fixed''
To: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>, 884@bugs.x2go.org,
 devsk <internet_everyone@yahoo.com>, Ulrich Sibiller <uli42@gmx.de>,
 Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com>
References: <20150604081840.Horde.mdV0JKpeGz4gbpocpqteQw2@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de>
 <1757290511.111762.1441157577006.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
 <20150902090019.Horde.s2V45m0ldIMQpGmC7UZZhA1@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de>
From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110
Message-ID: <55E73F21.6010508@ionic.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 20:25:37 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:38.0)
 Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <20150902090019.Horde.s2V45m0ldIMQpGmC7UZZhA1@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de>
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512;
 protocol="application/pgp-signature";
 boundary="vPNxbJe6c13epv1QC09huxUJmD1wwSmP4"

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
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


[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.

X2Go Developers <owner@bugs.x2go.org>. Last modified: Fri Apr 19 01:27:37 2024; Machine Name: ymir.das-netzwerkteam.de

X2Go Bug tracking system

Debbugs is free software and licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License version 2. The current version can be obtained from https://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/.

Copyright © 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson, 2005-2017 Don Armstrong, and many other contributors.