Bug 467339

Summary: xmode2 says "couldn't load font" and exits
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Till Maas <opensource>
Component: lircAssignee: Jarod Wilson <jarod>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Till Maas 2008-10-16 21:54:58 UTC
Description of problem:
I booted F10 Snap1 i686 Live and installed lirc. I followed
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_8_on_a_ThinkPad_X41_Tablet#Infrared
to setup lircd and it somehow got started. I then tried to run xmode2 and it showed a window for a very short time (less than a second) and printed "couldn't load font". Then it exited.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.8.4-0.5.fc10

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run F10 Snap1 i686 Live
2. install lirc and get lircd to run
3. run xmode2
  
Actual results:
prints "couldn't load font"

Expected results:
I guess it should show what my ir receiver is receiving.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:56:30 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 2 Jarod Wilson 2009-07-22 02:41:42 UTC
Wow, took me a while to get around to this... The problem is that xmode2 is trying to load up a Courier font, which isn't on most systems. A simple enough fix is to build it to use the 'misc-fixed' font instead. Pushing that change into rawhide now...

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 08:35:18 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:35:36 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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Comment 5 Jarod Wilson 2010-01-22 20:52:07 UTC
Was actually fixed in rawhide, altering state slightly to reflect that.