Bug 390971

Summary: vncserver still relies on the xfs server for some fonts
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jim Hennessy <jphxxxx>
Component: vncAssignee: Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8CC: ovasik, sergio
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Fixed In Version: 4.1.2-24.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jim Hennessy 2007-11-19 19:49:12 UTC
Description of problem:

I did a fresh install of Fedora 8 and started a VNC server.  When I connect to
that VNC server with a remote viewer I find that I do not have many fonts
available from the "legacy" font set (for example, adobe-courier and
adobe-helvetica) in the VNC session.  By available, I mean they are not
displayed by xfontsel or xlsfonts.  I found that if I install the xorg-x11-xfs
package and start the xfs service, then I have the fonts available again.

Fedora 8 does not install the xfs server by default because of the plan to
eliminate the requirement for one, as documented at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNoMoreXFS.  But the vnc-server
package appears to still rely on having xfs running, so perhaps some change to
the vnc server was missed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  vnc-server-4.1.2-23.fc8


How reproducible:  Always


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Fedora 8, including vnc-server, but not xorg-x11-xfs.
2. Start the vnc-server and connect to it remotely with a vnc viewer.
3. Run xfontsel or xlsfonts and observe that "standard" fonts like adobe-courier
   and adobe-helvetica are not listed.  In fact, I see only 6 lines of output
   from xlsfonts, so very few are seen by vncserver.
  
Actual results:

I see very few fonts from xlsfonts.

Expected results:

I expect to see quite a few fonts from xlsfonts.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adam Tkac 2007-12-20 15:18:14 UTC
fix is commited in CVS, will be avaliable in next update. Thanks for report

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-03-19 12:29:36 UTC
vnc-4.1.2-24.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-03-21 22:19:57 UTC
vnc-4.1.2-24.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update vnc'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2646

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-03-26 17:18:25 UTC
vnc-4.1.2-24.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.