[Bug 452568] New: all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font

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Summary: all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 9
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: urgent
          Priority: low
         Component: xorg-x11-fonts
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Description of problem:

most X applications fail with an X error saying that it cannot find an object.
it turns out the that object is usually a font.
this means that when I start X, all I see is a blank screen - no nautilus, no
panels, no way to start a gnome-terminal or an xterm or firefox.
(I am typing this on another machine, and I do not have ssh access to the
problematic machine atm).
the X log also indicates errors to load modules "record" and "type1".
(apparently, "type1" has been subsumed into "freetype" - what about "record"?).
I have many font packages installed, including the type1 font package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

latest ("yum -u upgrade" nightly)

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start x
2.
3.

Actual results:
blank X screen, no desktop icons (like home, computer, trash), no panels.
just the mouse pointer which can be moved but which has not thing to click on.

Expected results:
X screen with panels, icons, menues &c.

Additional info:

[Bug 452568] all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-23 16:45 EST -------
xorg-x11-fonts is old and inappropriate for most modern apps (only used by some
legacy stuff)

Do you actually have any current font package such as dejavu-fonts,
dejavu-fonts-experimental or liberation-fonts installed on system?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-23 17:57 EST -------
Let's make more explicit test; reporter, could you please post output of the
command:

rpm -qa *fonts*

Thank you.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-23 18:46 EST -------
$ rpm -qa *fonts*
fonts-KOI8-R-1.0-10.fc8.noarch
fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi-1.0-10.fc8.noarch
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-8.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-4.fc9.noarch
liberation-fonts-1.0-4.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-18.fc8.noarch
dejavu-lgc-fonts-2.24-3.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
mathml-fonts-1.0-21.fc6.noarch
fonts-hebrew-0.101-2.fc8.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-22.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.2-3.fc8.noarch
urw-fonts-2.4-5.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
culmus-fonts-0.101-4.fc8.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.2.fc9.noarch
$

[Bug 452568] all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-23 18:50 EST -------
specific errors:

The program 'nautilus' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadName (named color or font does not exist)'.
  (Details: serial 264 error_code 15 request_code 45 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Window manager warning: xserver doesn't have 'fixed' font.
Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadName (named color or font does not
exist) serial 209 error_code 15 request_code 45 minor_code 0)
Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xa75767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xa7590e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xac8109]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XUngrabPointer+0x25) [0xabdd55]
#4 /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(gdk_display_pointer_ungrab+0xba) [0x25d3f54]
#5 /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(gdk_pointer_ungrab+0x1c) [0x25aadd9]
#6 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so [0x15036e]
#7
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so(_ZN15google_breakpad16ExceptionHandler21InternalWriteMinidumpEijPP10sigcontext+0x43)
[0x150893]
#8
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so(_ZN15google_breakpad16ExceptionHandler15HandleExceptionEi+0xa3)
[0x150e23]
#9 [0x110420]
#10 /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x188) [0x7b4028]
#11 metacity [0x807dbc6]
#12 metacity [0x80675e2]
#13 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XError+0x109) [0xac0a49]
#14 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xac8ac8]
#15 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XEventsQueued+0x55) [0xac9435]
#16 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XFlush+0x42) [0xac94c2]
#17 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XFlush+0x31) [0xaa0b41]
#18 metacity [0x807661f]
#19 metacity [0x8077791]

[Bug 452568] all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-24 03:31 EST -------
That makes it an xorg problem (I think)

[Bug 452568] all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-25 12:50 EST -------

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 430416 ***