From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 15:23:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19621065670 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.netplex.net (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9FF8FC0A for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.netplex.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id n1KF4JVD026957; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:04:19 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.netplex.net) X-Greylist: Message whitelisted by DRAC access database, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.10]); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:04:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:04:19 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: Stephen Hurd In-Reply-To: <499EC082.90300@sasktel.net> Message-ID: References: <499EC082.90300@sasktel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors/nedit font weirdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:23:01 -0000 On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Stephen Hurd wrote: > I recently updated my ports and rebuilt and now any time I try to run nedit, > I get a handfull of "Cannot load font." errors followed by a segfault. > However, *if* I have xfontsel running, I only get a few warnings, then nedit > runs normally. Maybe some fonts have been removed? I have performed a > portupgrade -fRr editors/nedit to no avail. > > The warnings I get when xfontsel is running are: > Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to > type FontStruct > Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to > type FontStruct > Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to > type FontStruct > > And when xfontsel is *not* running, I get: > Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to > type FontStruct > Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font > > Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING > Class: XmRendition > Conversion failed. Cannot load font. [ ... ] I haven't upgraded yet to the new Xorg, and given all the problems I've seen recently, I don't have any plans to in the near future. I suspect this is probably somehow related to that, but I don't really know other than I don't see this problem on any of my systems with earlier Xorg ports. -- DE