Can anyone shed some light on this? I still haven't been able to resolve this. Just some pointers on where I might find my answers is all I need. This font business is very confusing to me. 2009/10/7 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi everyone, > > I have a weird problem probably very specific to Fedora, hence who better to > ask but thte list? ;) > > I am trying to compile the latest svn trunk of ROOT[1]. It compiles without > errors and everything seems fine. While using the interactive CLI (known as > CINT, its an _interpreter_ for C++), one of the GUIs segfaults with an error > like this: > >> Root > Error in <RootX11ErrorHandler>: BadFont (invalid Font parameter) >> (XID: 54526094, XREQ: 46) > > I have reported this to the developers and they haven't been able to > duplicate this problem on their end (on Scientific Linux 4 & 5). Hence they > think this might be something very specific to Fedora. On my system I have > installed everything using yum, so unless there is some inconsistency > somewhere everything should be fine. I haven't seen any other font problems > in any of the apps I use. So kinda stumped how to troubleshoot this. > > This is what one of them had to say about the problem, > >> That's really weird. It looks like it is connected with the GUI. >> >> Note that the fact something is installed using yum does not makes it >> safe. I recently had problem with a package called graphviz. The official >> yum version did not work for me. I had to installed it myself. But is the >> case the TTF yum install should be good I guess. >> > (he made the last comment since I had mentioned I have used yum for > everything) > > Now what would be the packages I should be looking at for this? I tried `yum > search ttf' but that only comes up with fonts. Is there some package that > controls how fonts behave in general? I have heard of fontconfig and > something about ROOT not using fontconfig[2] but I don't know whether that > is relevant here. > > This framework is like bread and butter for me, so pointers to where I > should look to get behind all this will be very helpful. Thank you in > advance for any suggestions. > > [1] http://root.cern.ch/ > [2] This was mentioned in a Review request for ROOT. Look at comment #33 by > Nicolas Mailhot in the following bugzilla report. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744 > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
