Bug 63022

Summary:	XChat gives font error on startup
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Wade Minter <minter>
Component:	xchat	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	61901

Description Wade Minter 2002-04-09 13:19:47 UTC

Description of Problem:

When I start Xchat, it pops up to warning dialogs.  They say:

Cannot open font:
-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-*-*

I did a custom install without legacy X servers, if that helps.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-04-09 13:46:33 UTC

What xchat version-release, what XFree86 version-release?  Please always
indicate this information when reporting bugs against rawhide or betas.

There was a fixed font problem in XFree86 which was fixed in 4.2.0-6.52

Comment 2 Wade Minter 2002-04-09 14:03:57 UTC

Sorry 'bout that.

[minter@localhost minter]$ rpm -q xchat
xchat-1.8.8-4
[minter@localhost minter]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-4.2.0-6.52
[minter@localhost minter]$

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-04-10 00:11:33 UTC

Try xchat 1.8.8-5.  Also make sure you've got 4.2.0-6.52 packages of
ALL of the XFree86 rpm's, including fonts.

rpm -qa |grep XFree86

The font XLFD you've given above results in a small fixed font on my machine.

Comment 4 Wade Minter 2002-04-10 13:47:02 UTC

Moved to -5, same font problem.

[minter@localhost minter]$ rpm -qa |grep XFree86
XFree86-libs-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-font-utils-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-xdm-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-twm-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-devel-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-6.52
XFree86-tools-4.2.0-6.52
[minter@localhost minter]$

And I've noticed the small font, too, on my laptop.  Seems smaller than 7.2's
version of xchat.

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2002-04-15 21:35:30 UTC

Please try upgrading to 4.2.0-6.666 or later.  Many font issues are fixed now.
If it works, please close bug as fixed in RAWHIDE

Comment 6 Jay Turner 2002-04-16 01:32:54 UTC

I'm getting the following:
Cannot open font:
-abisource-arial-regular-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

Here the details:
haring (jturner):~ > rpm -qa | grep XFree86
XFree86-font-utils-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-tools-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-devel-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-twm-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-libs-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-6.666
XFree86-xdm-4.2.0-6.666

Comment 7 Wade Minter 2002-04-16 18:15:46 UTC

Is -6.666 in rawhide?  I don't see it on ftp.beta...

Comment 8 Wade Minter 2002-04-17 13:53:16 UTC

The problem seems to go away with XFree86-4.2.0-7 in Rawhide.