Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 478370
xemacs complains about missing charsets
Last modified: 2009-09-04 00:07:15 EDT
Description of problem: When I start xemacs from the command line, it complains "Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion" to standard error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ yum list installed | grep xemacs xemacs.i386 21.5.28-9.fc10 installed xemacs-common.i386 21.5.28-9.fc10 installed xemacs-packages-base.noarch 20070427-1.fc8 installed xemacs-packages-extra.noarch 20070427-3.fc10 installed How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. open bash shell 2. $ xemacs & 3. Actual results: When I start xemacs from the command line, it complains "Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion" to standard error. Expected results: No warnings. Additional info: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ yum list installed | grep font bitmap-fonts.noarch 0.3-5.1.1 installed bitstream-vera-fonts.noarch 1.10-7 installed chkfontpath.i386 1.10.1-1.1 installed dejavu-lgc-fonts.noarch 2.10-1 installed fontconfig.i386 2.4.1-3.fc6 installed fontconfig-devel.i386 2.4.1-3.fc6 installed ghostscript-fonts.noarch 5.50-13.1.1 installed libXfont.i386 1.2.8-1.fc6 installed libXfont-devel.i386 1.2.8-1.fc6 installed libXfontcache.i386 1.0.2-3.1 installed libXfontcache-devel.i386 1.0.2-3.1 installed libfontenc.i386 1.0.2-2.1 installed libfontenc-devel.i386 1.0.2-2.1 installed mplayer-fonts.noarch 1.1-3.fc installed msttcorefonts.noarch 2.0-1 installed tetex-fonts.i386 3.0-36.fc6 installed urw-fonts.noarch 2.3-6.1.1 installed xorg-x11-font-utils.i386 1:7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch 7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch 7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi.noarch 7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch 7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch 7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-base.noarch 7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch 7.1-2 installed xorg-x11-fonts-truetype.noarch 7.1-2 installed If I use "export LANG=C ; xemacs &" instead of "xemacs &" then no warning occurs.
Just a ping back, see also bug 478999.
Installing additional fonts solves the issue, specifically: yum install xorg-x11-fonts* Installed: xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch 0:7.2-6.fc9
Rawhide, x86_64 up to date. I've got: xemacs.x86_64 21.5.28-9.fc10 xemacs-common.x86_64 21.5.28-9.fc10 xemacs-info.x86_64 21.5.28-9.fc10 xemacs-packages-base.noarch 20070427-1.fc8 xemacs-packages-extra.noarch 20070427-4.fc11 xemacs-packages-extra-info.noarch 20070427-4.fc11 and the following X fonts: xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch 7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch 7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi.noarch 7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch 7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch 7.2-6.fc9 xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch 7.2-6.fc9 xemacs crashes (segfaults) on startup. $ xemacs Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1, -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*, *" 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 Fatal error (11).
Could you attach the stack trace for the crash? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
Created attachment 334444 [details] LISP backtrace
Created attachment 334445 [details] Binary backtrace The above is from running xemacs in a gnome-terminal. xemacs* packages installed: xemacs-21.5.28-11.fc11.x86_64 xemacs-common-21.5.28-11.fc11.x86_64 xemacs-debuginfo-21.5.28-11.fc11.x86_64 xemacs-info-21.5.28-11.fc11.noarch xemacs-packages-base-20090217-1.fc11.noarch xemacs-packages-extra-20090217-1.fc11.noarch
*** Bug 489145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Let's track the Rawhide crash issue in #489145, it might not be the same one as originally reported here. Carl, regarding comment 2 - was installing all those packages needed to get rid of the warning or was it just one or some of them?
Ville, I did a little playing around. It appears that only xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch is required to make the warning go away.
Thanks Carl, I can reproduce and verify that. Will add a dependency on it in future builds.
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
I've also run into this Missing Charsets error, and I poked around and discovered an old package xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.2-3.fc8.noarch installed on my fedora 11 system. (I've upgraded 8 -> 10 -> 11.) I removed that package, made sure to have xorg-x11-fonts-misc, ran 'xset fp rehash', and now the error message seems to be gone. This did keep some parts of xemacs from working -- I had trouble with psvn for example. And xfontsel gave me the same error before I made the above changes. Maybe there was something in the 8->9 upgrade system that would have removed this package had I not skipped that step? Oh well.
The situation has changed a little in Fedora 11. Even with xorg-x11-fonts-misc, I ran into trouble due to bz 507637. That will be fixed soon. Even with the fixed cjkuni-fonts packages, I still got the warning, because the X core fonts no longer ship an ISO8859-13 font. I installed the terminus-fonts package, which does have such a font, and now XEmacs starts silently. However, I'm reluctant to add a Requires on any particular ISO8859-13 font, especially since many XEmacs users will not have any need of such a font. So, ultimately, the warning will remain for those who don't install an ISO8859-13 font on their own. I will push a new XEmacs build soon that has the xorg-x11-fonts-misc Requires, and will close this bug then.
xemacs-21.5.29-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xemacs-21.5.29-2.fc11
xemacs-21.5.29-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xemacs'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8993
I tried xemacs-21.5.29-2.fc11.x86_64 just now. It still says this [timliim@taiwan ~]$ xemacs Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Which is the symptom of this bug. Do I need to update other packages to test?
Here is what is going on. A call to XtCvtStringToFontSet checks whether the resulting FontSet covers every CharSet associated with the calling process's locale. To see the CharSets associated with a locale, look in the appropriate locale file under /usr/share/X11/locale. I use the en_US.UTF-8 locale, for example, so I look in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE, where I see that X is going to look for the following CharSets: ISO8859-1, ISO8859-2, ISO8859-3, ISO8859-4, ISO8859-5, KOI8-R, ISO8859-7, ISO8859-9, ISO8859-13, ISO8859-14, ISO8859-15, JISX0208.1983, KSC5601.1987, GB2312.1980, JISX0201.1976, and ISO10646. If I specify a FontSet string that doesn't match fonts for every single one of those CharSets, I'm going to see the warning. Before handing maintainership over to me, Ville made xemacs Requires: xorg-x11-fonts-misc, which contains fonts for a bunch of CharSets. The build referred to in comment 15 contains that, making it less likely that end users will see this warning. In my locale there is still trouble, though, as xorg-x11-fonts-misc does not contain any ISO8859-13 font. I installed terminus-fonts, which does, just to make the warning go away. (For those seeing this warning, try running some other application that uses the legacy X font system, such as xfontsel. You will probably see the same warning.) The warning is generally harmless. It just means that you can't view some CharSets, but they're probably CharSets you don't want to view anyway. Also, ultimately, this warning cannot be eliminated by the application. It is up to the user to install fonts that cover the appropriate CharSets, and to supply FontSet strings that match those fonts. With that in mind, I plan to declare this bug as fixed as I can make it once the above build hits stable. In the meantime, you should also watch out for broken fonts that lie about the CharSets they supply. See bz 507637 for an example.
xemacs-21.5.29-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.