[Bug 450709] New: fontforge can't find -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal font

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Summary: fontforge can't find -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 9
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: fontforge
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail],[e-mail]

Description of problem:

When I start up fontforge, I get the following error message:

Help! Server claimed font
        -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--26-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
 existed in the font list, but when I asked for it there was nothing.
 I may crash soon.
 Segmentation fault

I've never see this behavior before.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20080309-1.fc9

How reproducible:
every time, on three different F9 systems

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

Actual results: as above

Expected results: fontforge opens

Additional info:

% xlsfonts | grep "ibm-courier"
-ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
-ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
-ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
-ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
-ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3
-ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
-ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
-ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
-ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
-ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
-ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3
-ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
-ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
-ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
-ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
-ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
-ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3
-ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
-ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
-ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
-ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
-ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
-ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3
-ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9

% fc-list "Courier 10 Pitch"
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold Italic
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Italic
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Regular
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold

[Bug 450709] fontforge can't find -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal font

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-10 12:29 EST -------
What font packages do you have installed?

output of 'rpm -qa | grep fonts | sort' ?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-10 12:43 EST -------
> What font packages do you have installed?

% rpm -qa | grep fonts | sort
bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.2.fc9.noarch
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-8.noarch
dejavu-fonts-2.24-3.fc9.noarch
dejavu-fonts-experimental-2.24-3.fc9.noarch
gentium-fonts-1.02-5.fc7.noarch
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-18.fc8.noarch
java-1.5.0-sun-fonts-1.5.0.09-1jpp.i586
jmk-x11-fonts-3.0-1.i386
liberation-fonts-1.0-4.fc9.noarch
lohit-fonts-punjabi-2.2.1-2.fc9.noarch
lohit-fonts-telugu-2.2.1-2.fc9.noarch
mathml-fonts-1.0-21.fc6.noarch
mplayer-fonts-1.0-7.at.noarch
msttcorefonts-1.3-4.noarch
texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-4.fc9.noarch
texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-22.fc9.noarch
ttfonts-1.0-9.noarch
urw-fonts-2.4-5.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-6.fc9.noarch

[Bug 450709] fontforge can't find -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal font

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-10 14:50 EST -------
The problem seems to have been fonts.{scale,dir} files that weren't upgraded
when I upgraded from f8 to f9.  After doing

fc-cache /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1

fontforge starts up okay. Should the bug report be transferred to
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-10 15:13 EST -------
Yeah, I would think so. It should regenerate it's caches on upgrade... 
Would you like me to reassign it?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-10 15:57 EST -------
Please do.  I've confirmed on another system that the fonts.{scale,dir} files
are not updated when xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 is upgraded from 7.2-3.fc8 to 7.2-6.fc9.

[Bug 450709] xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 doesn't update cache files on upgrade

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-10 16:02 EST -------
Re-assigning. Thanks again for reporting this!

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-06-21 09:15 EST -------
*** Bug 444377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug 450709] xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 doesn't update cache files on upgrade

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*** Bug 457021 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #9 from Tony Fu   2008-09-09 23:15:15 EDT ---
requested by Jens Petersen (#27995)

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--- Comment #10 from Kevin Fenzi   2008-10-10 01:11:15 EDT ---
*** Bug 466404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #11 from Kevin Fenzi   2008-12-02 01:37:46 EDT ---
*** Bug 466404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Bug 450709] xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 doesn't update cache files on upgrade

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--- Comment #12 from Jens Petersen   2009-01-05 21:44:04 EDT ---
Ping?

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--- Comment #13 from Hans Ulrich Niedermann   2009-01-17 15:55:03 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> The problem seems to have been fonts.{scale,dir} files that weren't upgraded
> when I upgraded from f8 to f9.  After doing
>
> fc-cache /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1

This does not help on my system.

F9 (upgraded from F8),

xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
fontconfig-2.5.0-2.fc9.i386

fc-cache does not touch fonts.{scale,dir}, apparently.

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--- Comment #14 from Nicolas Mailhot   2009-01-17 16:03:42 EDT ---
fontconfig does not use fonts.{scale,dir}. They're only needed by the old
brittle legacy deprecated X11 core font systems

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--- Comment #15 from Hans Ulrich Niedermann   2009-01-18 10:39:24 EDT ---
Unfortunately, this "old brittle legacy etc." font system prevents, of all
things, "fontforge" from launching.

Is there any way to get "fontforge" to run? (The fontforge bug has been marked
a duplicate of this one.)

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--- Comment #16 from Nicolas Mailhot   2009-01-18 13:42:35 EDT ---
You can always try the rawhide fontforge version, it's supposed to use cairo
and other modern stuff now

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--- Comment #17 from Jens Petersen   2009-01-21 19:59:38 EDT ---
I wonder if comment 7 is not due to the removal of ibm-type1 fonts from fedora?

* Mon Jan 14 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway  - 7.2-6
- IBM refused to relicense ibm-type1 fonts with permission to modify,
  so they were dropped (bugzilla 317641)

Maybe fontforge needs to be patched to use another font, or that already fixed?
(Runs for me anyway with F10 and rawhide.)

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--- Comment #18 from Dwayne Bailey   2009-02-11 11:08:18 EDT ---
Bad news from me.  I had this problem, removed all the X11 fonts and things
worked.  A then added a number of cool fonts and bang its broken again with
this error:

Help! Server claimed font
 -misc-ar pl uming tw-light-r-normal--16-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
 existed in the font list, but when I asked for it there was nothing.

I ran fc-cache against each directory separately but this changed nothing.  How
the H^ll do I know which font is breaking this.

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--- Comment #19 from Dwayne Bailey   2009-02-11 11:26:10 EDT ---
Just remember I did a 'yum groupupdate Fonts' to make sure my default fonts
included all standard installs.  Things broke at some stage after that.

But I've tracked this down, if I do:

yum remove cjkunifonts-uming

fontforge now works

yum groupupdate Fonts

This will reinstall cjkunifonts-uming and things break.  So the default fonts
installed are causing the fontforge breakage and specifically
cjkunifonts-uming.

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--- Comment #20 from Matej Cepl   2009-02-11 18:41:13 EDT ---
I have to ask “wrong question” — are you able to reproduce it with Fedora 10?

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--- Comment #21 from Jens Petersen   2009-02-13 04:06:56 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> yum remove cjkunifonts-uming
> fontforge now works
> yum groupupdate Fonts
> This will reinstall cjkunifonts-uming and things break.  So the default fonts
> installed are causing the fontforge breakage and specifically
> cjkunifonts-uming.

Dwayne, could you please file a separate bug against cjkunifonts (or
cjkuni-fonts if it is rawhide) - this sounds unrelated to this bug.

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--- Comment #22 from Dwayne Bailey   2009-02-13 12:33:29 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > yum remove cjkunifonts-uming
> > fontforge now works
> > yum groupupdate Fonts
> > This will reinstall cjkunifonts-uming and things break.  So the default fonts
> > installed are causing the fontforge breakage and specifically
> > cjkunifonts-uming.
>
> Dwayne, could you please file a separate bug against cjkunifonts (or
> cjkuni-fonts if it is rawhide) - this sounds unrelated to this bug.

Its related in that it does the same thing, but on a different font.  See bug
485472 for a report against cjkunifonts.

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--- Comment #23 from Nils Philippsen   2009-02-19 05:12:20 EDT ---
I could reproduce this on F-10.

More infos about this can be found in the comments of bug #466404:
> Whenever fontforge crashes,  /var/log/Xorg.0.log updates
> $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> [...]
> FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/cour.pfa: 1
> FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/cour.pfa: 1
> FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/cour.pfa: 1
> FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/cour.pfa: 1
> FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/cour.pfa: 1
> FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/cour.pfa: 1

When fontforge crashed on me, only these two files referenced "cour.pfa" in any
way:

/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.scale

After I uninstalled and reinstalled xorg-x11-fonts-Type1, fontforge worked
again and the two files didn't reference cour.pfa anymore. It seems to me that
the mkfontdir, mkfontscale commands in the %post/%postun scripts fail to remove
references to fonts that are removed from the fonts.dir, fonts.scale files. In
that case, the problem is not in the fonts packages, but in these tools.

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--- Comment #25 from Jens Petersen   2009-06-23 03:07:32 EDT ---
Is this still an issue with F10, F11 and later?

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--- Comment #26 from Nils Philippsen   2009-06-23 07:42:02 EDT ---
On my F-11 system, I inserted a fake font entry in fonts.dir, fonts.scale,
re-ran the xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 %post script and it was removed.

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--- Comment #27 from Jens Petersen   2009-06-23 20:40:50 EDT ---
Thanks Nils - I am assuming that is ok then with newer fedora and closing out.