From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: Any attempt to get R to open an X windows fails. This may be due to a missed dependency, but I've installed every fontpack I could think of and the problem doesn't go away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): R-2.1.1-2.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start R 2. s <- c(1,2,3) 3. plot(s) Actual Results: can't find X11 font Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, gamma, colortype, maxcubesize, : unable to start device X11 Expected Results: Should have opened a window and plotted a very straight line. Additional info:
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.