Bug 472307

> install zvbi-fonts to fix the issue

No, zvbi-fonts is required for some teletext features only.

The problem is the Xawtv is too old application, which is not actively maintained upstream. Thus it uses fonts in the old manner (not by fontconfig system). Modern  Fedora does not install old "bitmap" fonts by default, therefore xawtv cannot find it...

Could you, please, report what fonts are installed on your system? Fe. by runing:

rpm -qa '*font*'

I would like to reproduce this issue locally...

Ok, I'll send you the font list later (rawhide machine is at home).

anyway, please note I had that error, run "yum install zvbi-fonts" then xawtv started

Just tried to remove zvbi-fonts -- xawtv still works without it for me.

Perhaps the installing of zvbi-fonts in your case have inspired a hidden install of some dependencies...

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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I had the same problem with xawtv in F10.  Installing xorg-x11-fonts-misc fixed it for me.

Well,
it seems that we need to add BR: xorg-x11-fonts-misc . OTOH the required fonts could be provided additionally by 75dpi fonts and some other packages.

Are there some "virtual provide" for such fonts?

I think you mean "Requires: xorg-x11-fonts-misc", not BR:

The fonts are only needed at runtime, not build time.

Sure. :)

I have same issue with xavtv.
Neither installing zvbi-fonts nor xorg-x11-fonts-misc helped for me.

Same problem here (xawtv-3.95-11.fc11.i586) with both, zvbi-fonts and xorg-x11-fonts-misc, installed.

I have the same problem in f11 preview, also with zvbi-fonts and xorg-x11-fonts-misc installed:

This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.29.3-140.fc11.i686.PAE)
xinerama 0: 1280x1024+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
/dev/video1 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,           -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,          -gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,        -efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,                 -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*,                 -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,                         -*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: Aborting: no fontset found

Here are the fonts I have installed:
rpm -qa '*font*'
fontconfig-2.6.99.behdad.20090508-1.fc11.i586
lohit-hindi-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
urw-fonts-2.4-7.fc11.noarch
lohit-kannada-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
liberation-serif-fonts-1.04.93-10.fc11.noarch
libXfont-devel-1.4.0-3.fc11.i586
padauk-fonts-2.4-3.fc11.noarch
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-8.fc11.noarch
lohit-gujarati-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
smc-fonts-common-04.1-6.fc11.noarch
dejavu-serif-fonts-2.29-2.fc11.noarch
abyssinica-fonts-1.0-4.fc11.noarch
cjkuni-uming-fonts-0.2.20080216.1-23.fc11.noarch
fontconfig-devel-2.6.99.behdad.20090508-1.fc11.i586
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-7.fc11.i586
texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-28.fc11.noarch
dejavu-sans-fonts-2.29-2.fc11.noarch
lklug-fonts-0.2.2-9.fc11.noarch
un-core-fonts-dotum-1.0.2-0.7.080608.fc11.noarch
lohit-telugu-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
lohit-fonts-common-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
dejavu-fonts-common-2.29-2.fc11.noarch
cjkuni-fonts-common-0.2.20080216.1-23.fc11.noarch
zvbi-fonts-0.2.33-3.fc11.i586
kacst-fonts-2.0-2.fc11.noarch
smc-meera-fonts-04.1-6.fc11.noarch
lohit-oriya-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
thai-scalable-fonts-common-0.4.11-3.fc11.noarch
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-20.fc11.noarch
libXfont-1.4.0-3.fc11.i586
liberation-sans-fonts-1.04.93-10.fc11.noarch
jomolhari-fonts-0.003-7.fc11.noarch
vlgothic-fonts-20090204-3.fc11.noarch
stix-fonts-0.9-12.fc11.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-8.fc11.noarch
openoffice.org-opensymbol-fonts-3.1.0-11.2.fc11.i586
liberation-mono-fonts-1.04.93-10.fc11.noarch
lohit-bengali-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
lohit-maithili-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
liberation-fonts-common-1.04.93-10.fc11.noarch
khmeros-fonts-common-5.0-6.fc11.noarch
dejavu-sans-mono-fonts-2.29-2.fc11.noarch
paktype-fonts-2.0-3.fc11.noarch
lohit-punjabi-fonts-2.3.8-1.fc11.noarch
vlgothic-fonts-common-20090204-3.fc11.noarch
libfontenc-devel-1.0.4-7.fc11.i586
khmeros-base-fonts-5.0-6.fc11.noarch
fontpackages-filesystem-1.20-2.fc11.noarch
texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-6.fc11.noarch
bitmap-fonts-0.3-7.fc11.noarch
libfontenc-1.0.4-7.fc11.i586
thai-scalable-waree-fonts-0.4.11-3.fc11.noarch


In an earlier comment #1, somebody mentioned that xawtv was old and not maintained.  Is there a better app to be using to watch tv with f11?

For comment #11 :

Maybe "xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi" should be installed as well?..

> xawtv was old and not maintained.
> Is there a better app to be using to watch tv with f11?  

Yes, tvtime .

The main reason for xawtv is some comand-line tools, useful to operate with v4l2, and console radio. Unfortunately, more modern tv applications are focused on "GUI video for end user" only.

(In reply to comment #12)
> Maybe "xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi" should be installed as well?..

Doesn't help, at least not for me.

> > xawtv was old and not maintained.
> > Is there a better app to be using to watch tv with f11?  
> 
> Yes, tvtime .
> 
> The main reason for xawtv is some comand-line tools, useful to operate with
> v4l2, and console radio. Unfortunately, more modern tv applications are focused
> on "GUI video for end user" only.  

Well, and tvtime does not support all sources. E.g. my gspca webcam worked fine with xawtv, but tvtime refuses to display anything for it.

xawtv does not work for me in current F11 with zvbi-fonts and
xorg-x11-fonts-misc and xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi all installed.

Quote from comment #11 :

Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,          
-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,         
-gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,       
-efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,                
-*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*,                
-*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,                        
-*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet


It seems that all the fonts are installed, but are not activated (maybe xfs does not running etc.)

Could anybody, please, test any of the font patterns above with "xfontsel" utility (from xorg-x11-utils) ?
IOW, run:

xfontsel -pattern '-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*' 

etc.

This could determine whether it is an xawtv-related problem or some system-wide issue.

Sorry, I should've mentioned - I actually had the same thought and tried that. With xfontsel I can indeed get a font pattern that exactly matches the first one xawtv is looking for:

-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*

so it's not that simple. :\

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Does xfontsel use fonts directly or by X server?

In other words, more clean test should be using fe. xterm:

xterm -fn '-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*'

and so on...

That works (and gives the font you'd expect it to).

The only one in the list that fails is:

-gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*

all the others succeed. Is xawtv requesting *all* those fonts, or just any one?

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This font is not choosable by me too, both by xfontsel and xterm, but xawtv works fine without it on my system.

All those fonts are specified in old-style X11 config file, /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xawtv

The warnings/errors above are produced by some X11 library, not by xawtv code itself.

Could someone play with fonts in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xawtv, fe. specify just '*' etc?. Or maybe the format of the correspond font "strings" is more strict now?

It is not Fedora-related issue, the same problem is reported in Debian and Ubuntu.

The case "missing some font" should be catched by the last "*" in the font lists: "...,*" , which means use ANY available font. But this does not help anyway.

According to comment #5, the istall of xorg-x11-fonts-misc does help, which looks strange.

Xawtv has no upstream for years, hence someone should perform some tryes more agressively in own "failed" environment...

dmitry: as I and several others mentioned later, installing that font package didn't appear to help here.

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Yes, I meant that it occasionally helped in a case of comment #5

Could anybody test whether stripping all font lists in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xawtv to single "*" help or not? Or commenting out of such lists at all?

(In reply to comment #22)

> Could anybody test whether stripping all font lists in
> /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xawtv to single "*" help or not? Or commenting out
> of such lists at all?  

No, it does not help to set it to *:

$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64)
xinerama 0: 1600x1200+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
seteuid(root): Operation not permitted
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: Aborting: no fontset found

Nor does it help removing the fontset lines:

$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64)
xinerama 0: 1600x1200+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
seteuid(root): Operation not permitted
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: Aborting: no fontset found

Looks like some misconfiguration...

Do you still have /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? (If not, it seems that it can be created by system-config-display). What is content of the "Files" section?

I assume that X server no more works with xfs. "service xfs start" and the proper 'FontPath     "unix/:7100"' specification in the "Files" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf should help then.

If not, try "LC_ALL=C xawtv" or "LANG=C xawtv" from cmdline...

(In reply to comment #24)
...
> If not, try "LC_ALL=C xawtv" or "LANG=C xawtv" from cmdline...  

Thanks, "LANG=C xawtv" works. LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 when I log in.

Fine!

Could you run

    xfontsel -pattern '*-iso10646-1'

to test whether yor "old" X fonts have unicode encoding or not?

Such fonts should be provided at least by "ghostscript-fonts" package, but comment #11 say that it did not help...

Besides it might be some problems of /usr/share/X11/encodings/ not visible for xfs server...

(In reply to comment #26)
...
>     xfontsel -pattern '*-iso10646-1'

487 fonts match

...
> Besides it might be some problems of /usr/share/X11/encodings/ not visible for
> xfs server...  

Is an xfs server used in F11?

I have this problem on a F11 machine upgraded from
F10, on another machine with F11 installed from scratch
I don't have this problem, xawtv starts without problems.

LANG is also en_US.UTF-8 on that machine.

ps -ef|fgrep xfs

returns nothing on both machines.

Well,

Perhaps the new F11 machine have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and X server uses some default FontPath, which matches the installed fonts directly (whithout xfs).
But the upgraded machine can still have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, with FontPath explicitly set to unix/:7100 (ie. use xfs), but xfs is not running... Hence the needed fonts are not visible.

What hapens if you perform "service xfs start" on the F10-->F11 upgraded machine?

(In reply to comment #28)

Both machines have no xfs installed.

Both machines have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file without
any font information.

Both machines have:

(==) FontPath set to: 
        catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
        built-ins

in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

No idea...

Try to reinstall xawtv on the failed machine.

Is SELinux enabled on both?

If the same package works on the scratch machine and does not work on the upgraded one, then it looks like a not xawtv-related issue...

ping?

(In reply to comment #31)
> ping?  

I solved my problem: Reinstall F11

No SELinux on any of the machines.

I've tried:

1. Take a spare machine
2. Install F10 (x86_64), incl. updates
3. Install fonts-misc and xawtv
4. Test xawtv: It works!
5. Do a preupgrade, select F11, reboot
6. Now xawtv doesn't work without LANG=C

fonts-misc is still installed.

I don't know if this is an X, xawtv, or a preupgrade problem.

What if re-install xawtv on the F10-->F11 "failed" system? Or re-build it locally on that machine?

Or maybe re-install (rpm -U --force ....) some X and/or font components of the system?

Still happening in Rawhide for me ...

Is it fresh rawhide install or upgraded from F10/F11 ?

Does "LANG=C xawtv" help?

Upgraded from F10.

LANG=C xawtv fixed it.

Tried with Fedora 12 Beta Live CD (on USB) and setting LANG=C no longer "fixes" it for me.

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ LANG=C xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686)
xinerama 0: 1600x1200+1024+0
xinerama 1: 1024x768+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
Oops: can't load any font


[liveuser@localhost ~]$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686)
xinerama 0: 1600x1200+1024+0
xinerama 1: 1024x768+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,           -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-*,          -gnu-unifont-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,        -efont-biwidth-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,                 -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-*-*-*,                 -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,                         -*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: Aborting: no fontset found

installing xorg-x11-fonts-misc fixes this for me, no LANG=C needed... en_US.UTF-8 appears to work fine.

FC11

i don't seem to have this problem any more on f12. xawtv still doesn't WORK, but not for font reasons...

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> xawtv still doesn't WORK, but not for font reasons...

Could you, please, explain what do you mean?

[adamw@adam Download]$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.31.5-96.fc12.x86_64)
xinerama 0: 1680x1050+0+0
xinerama 1: 1680x1050+1680+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD(std=0x1f69100 [PAL_M,NTSC_M,?,SECAM_D,SECAM_G,SECAM_K,SECAM_K1,SECAM_L,?ATSC_8_VSB,ATSC_16_VSB]): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_S_STD(std=0x0 []): Invalid argument

xawtv starts up and shows me the 'welcome to xawtv!' window. At this point, all the above messages are showing. The main window is just black with ??? as the title. My webcam works OK in cheese, ekiga etc. But this is clearly a different problem.

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

What's the status on this bug?  Its been there for a long time with no fix in sight. We are losing users because of this problem.

xawtv is died upstream long ago. No any fork yet.

Since xawtv still is useful, people provide some patches and continue to maintain it in various distros.

Unfortunately, it is not clear whether this bug is some internal xawtv issue, or some upgrade/latest install environment feature...

Xawtv uses old X api, including old X font system. It seems we need someone who is capable to understand this things in xawtv code. My knowledge of C code is not enough for this, and I still cannot reproduce this bug...

It is easily reproducible for many people Run in a VM and check if necessary for Fedora 12. Ask in fedora-devel list if you need help.

Well, but even if I presonally reproduce it, I cannot fix it. The power man with a good knouledge of old X font system is needed anyway.

Note, it is not a simple bug. Sometimes it disappears after specifying "LANG=C", sometimes after the fresh install. The xawtv code itself is not changed in F12, hence it is some F12's compatibility issue.

Moreover, such an issue can affect another old X programs. IOW, I feel we'll reassign this bug to another compoment in a result...

(In reply to comment #47)
>
> Note, it is not a simple bug. Sometimes it disappears after specifying
> "LANG=C", sometimes after the fresh install. The xawtv code itself is not
> changed in F12, hence it is some F12's compatibility issue.
> 

This bug was originally reported against f10 or f11 I think.

> This bug was originally reported against f10 or f11 I think.

Yes, and I was unable to reproduce it under F10...

(In reply to comment #49)
> > This bug was originally reported against f10 or f11 I think.
> 
> Yes, and I was unable to reproduce it under F10...  

My point was that this bug isn't just a new f12 compatibility
issue.  It (or another bug with a nearly identical signature)
has been around since f10.  Perhaps it is more reproducible
in f12, but I saw it in f10.

I saw this in F9. 

I just found that my problem was caused by a missing 
/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir - fixed by "mkfontdir /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
and "xset fp rehash".

But I don't think that's a distro problem in F9. I had a disk failure and lost some files. rpm reported 
xorg-x11-fonts-misc as verified OK because the fonts.dir is made by the install script, it's not part of the package.

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http://git.linuxtv.org/xawtv3.git seems to be a current repository.

I got some static on a screen and sound crackles, then a segfault on
second and subsequent tries on F15 with a test kernel:

$ LANG=C xawtv
This is xawtv-3.101, running on Linux/x86_64 (3.3.0-7.1.fc16.x86_64)
xinerama 0: 1366x768+0+0
vid-open-auto: using analog TV device /dev/video0
Alsa devices: cap: hw:2,0 (/dev/video0), out: default
Alsa stream started from hw:2,0 to default (48000 Hz, buffer delay = 30.00 ms)
Segmentation fault

Would it be possible to reopen the bug, as per Comment 53?