Bug 169013
Summary: | R cannot open X windows due to missing font | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Joe Burks <joe> |
Component: | R | Assignee: | Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4 | CC: | extras-qa |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-04-07 15:35:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Joe Burks
2005-09-22 07:10:26 UTC
I can't reproduce this one on my FC3 (ppc) or FC5 (x86) machines. I've got these font packages installed (rpm -qa |grep font) on my FC3 machine: fonts-xorg-base fonts-xorg-75dpi fonts-xorg-100dpi fonts-japanese xorg-x11-font-utils urw-fonts ghostscript-fonts chkfontpath bitstream-vera-fonts tetex-fonts fontconfig bitmap-fonts fontconfig-devel How is your system different? I'm currently running FC4. Here's my font list:
[root@open-226-187 ~]# rpm -qa |grep font
fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-13
mathml-fonts-1.0-18.fc4
fontconfig-2.2.3-13
fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.2-1
urw-fonts-2.3-1
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13
fonts-xorg-base-6.8.2-1
fonts-xorg-truetype-6.8.2-1
fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.2-1
fonts-japanese-0.20050222-3
chkfontpath-1.10.0-4
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-5
bitmap-fonts-0.3-4
tetex-fonts-3.0-6.FC4
I didn't have the fonts-japanese installed before, but I went ahead and
installed them and get the same thing:
[root@open-226-187 ~]# R
R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 2.1.1 (2005-06-20), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
Natural language support but running in an English locale
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> s <- c(1,2,3)
> plot(s)
can't find X11 font
Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, gamma, colortype, maxcubesize,
:
unable to start device X11
>
I will test this on a completely fresh FC4 install tonight to see if maybe it is
something I have done or if I can recreate it with a very simple setup.
I've tried to repeat this problem with a fresh FC4 install on another machine and couldn't reproduce it (works fine on the other machine). Something seems unique about my laptop install that is preventing R from running properly but I don't know what yet. Until I figure it out, I guess this bug can be closed. I found the problem, it's on my end. I installed nvidia's X driver and apparently R and the "nvidia" driver don't mesh. Switching back to the "nv" driver fixes all the problems with R. Closing this out. |