New subject: [Bug 680778] some important iso-10646-1 fonts unavailable

27 Feb 2011


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Summary: some important iso-10646-1 fonts unavailable
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680778
Summary: some important iso-10646-1 fonts unavailable
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 14
          Platform: noarch
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: unspecified
         Component: xorg-x11-fonts
        AssignedTo: xgl-maint@redhat.com
        ReportedBy: kurt@pinboard.com
         QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org
                CC: xgl-maint@redhat.com,
                    fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org
    Classification: Fedora
Description of problem:
In Fedora 14, resizing of an xterm with CTRL-RightClick is not possible. Input
of Japanese characters do not show the glyphs on the xterm either.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-12.fc14.noarch
Linux FC-7250.hag.hilti.com 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 23 16:04:50
UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
How reproducible:
consistent
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Fedora 14 with X and xterm
2. remove ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources to make sure there are no user
overrides
3. login to the graphical desktop
4. open an xterm
5. CTRL-RightClick and select another font size
No instructions on how to input Japanese glyphs, as that problem is
automatically resolved when the first one is resolved.
Actual results:
1. font does not change
2. Japanese glyphs don't show
Expected results:
1. font does change
2. Japanese glyphs show
Additional info:
The error messages upon changing the font size (open an xterm from another
xterm to see the error messages; change the font size in the second xterm)
mention missing *iso-10646-1 fonts. Sample error messags:
...
xterm: cannot load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1
xterm: cannot load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
With xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-12.fc14.noarch, there are fewer such fonts
(xlsfonts | grep 10646 | wc -l) than with the same package from Fedora 13.
Downgrading the xorg-x11-fonts-misc package to the version included with Fedora
13 fixes the problem.
cat <<__EOF__ >/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.13.repo
[fedora13]
name=Fedora 13 - $basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-13&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0
__EOF__
yum -y --enablerepo=fedora13 --nogpgcheck \
    downgrade xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-9.fc12
Interestingly, doing an upgrade to the Fedora 14 package again after that, the
problem is gone. The set of files installed by the two versions of the RPM are
more or less identical. But checking the RPM scriptlets shows that the earlier
package uses mkfontdir and fc-cache in the postinstall/postuninstall
scriptlets, where the newer package uses xorg-x11-fonts-update-dirs. However
here I'm finally lost at what these commands actually do. But somebody more
knowledgable than me in this area should fix future versions of the package so
they work again as expected and make all the fonts available.
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[Bug 680778] New: some important iso-10646-1 fonts unavailable