err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

[Joshua C.]

2010/8/31 James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>:
> Joshua C. wrote:
>>
>> I found something very interesting. As I said eralier I tried the same
>> packages some months ago and everything worked fine. So I just tested
>> all the packgaes until i found the "working" one. To clarify before I
>> start: wine works fine but the "wineconsole cmd" throws the error
>> about the missing font.
>>
>> This is what I did:
>>
>> I tested this on the f13-kde_livecd.x86_64
>>
>> 1. Install wine-core.i686, wine-wow.i686, wine-fonts, wine-common.
>> 2. start wineconsole cmd WITHOUT starting winecfg before it
>> 3. the error occurrs.
>> 4. The only "working" package is 1.2.0-0.6.rc6. After installing it
>> and going through the steps 1-3 wineconsole shows that it's "Building
>> font metrics". After it has finished I can upgrade to the latest
>> 1.3.1-1 and it works just fine.
>>
>>
>
> This is most interesting.  Unfortunately I did not get the Live CD burned
> today.  I'll give this a go tomorrow.  If I find this to be true on my
> system, then we have an issue to bring to the Wine folks.  I'll try using
> Gnome, if you don't mind.
>
>> if I delete the .wine directory AFTER the installation of
>> 1.2.0-0.6.rc6 then the error occurs again and I have to go back to the
>> rc6 in order to enumerate the fonts.
>>
>> This makes me believe that this font-enumeration writes something to
>> the .wine directory that's being used by the later versions. after
>> installing and starting the rc6 all other versions work fine, until I
>> delete the wine directory.
>>
>>
>
> It does.  Fonts are written to the .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts directory (or
> they should be).  That may be what is happening when you first run Wine
> after creating a new directory.  I'll also give this a go on my Mac (since
> this looks like a possible Wine bug), but again this will have to wait until
> tomorrow.
>
> Thank you for the details on what you did to get this to work.  This helps.
>
> James McKenzie
>
>

>From my point of view it looks like a fedora bug, not a wine bug. I
haven't tested the code from winehq but there were some commits with
some font changes in the lastest koji.

I got the same error with gnome and it also happens on i686. After you
confirm this we have to file bug ticket about this.