Description of problem: grace won't run due to missing fonts Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grace-5.1.23-4.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. xmgrace Actual results: --> Broken or incomplete installation - read the FAQ! Expected results: running grace, opens the application window
This is due to missing fonts. /etc/grace/FontDataBase defines a bunch of fonts from /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1 which symlinks to /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 , which is empty on RHEL7. On later Fedoras xmgrace RPM (e.g. grace-5.1.25-12.fc27.x86_64) brings its own set of 35 fonts, so probably the fix should be to release e.g. grace-5.1.25 for el7
As stated above for grace-5.1.23-4.el7.x86_64 /etc/grace/FontDataBase defines a bunch of fonts from /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1 which symlinks to /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1. Further digging shows: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 used to be populated by urw-fonts BUT urw-fonts is obsoleted by meta-package urw-base35-fonts which pulls in several urw-base35-*-fonts packages which place their font data in different directories with different names. xmgrace therefore cannot find them!!!
Duplicate of Bug 1750589 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750589
was reported for F27 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551219 (closed not solved)
oops wrong paste -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1502175
This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1750589 ***