Bug#352168: rxvt-unicode: Xft fonts broken with upgrade
Package: rxvt-unicode
Version: 7.5-1
Severity: important
I normally use Xft fonts with urxvt to get antialiasing. Upon upgrade
urxvt refuses to run. If I remove the Xft font settings from my
.Xresourses file then it runs again. However just specifying an Xft font
causes it to fail to start. I have bitstream vera sans mono installed,
and have been using that with previous releases. This is the startup
example given in the man page. It fails as shown:
$ xlsfonts | grep -i vera.sans.mono.medium.*iso10646-1
-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
$ urxvt -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15"
urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using
-fn, aborting.
Note that all other default codepages show up for the font as well, just
that I did not want to spam them all here. Running with LANG=C does not
change the symptoms. Other -fn settings work. Including:
$ urxvt -fn "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans
mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1"
But no anti-aliasing occurs.
urxvt does seem to be linked to Xft as expected.
$ ldd /usr/bin/urxvt
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb7f31000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7f02000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7eec000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e21000)
libperl.so.5.8 => /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8 (0xb7d01000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7cfc000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7cd6000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7cc3000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7b8d000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7b5f000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7b54000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7ae6000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ad2000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7ac9000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7aa9000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7a9b000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f56000)
It's not clear from the bug reports:
* #348666: rxvt-unicode: default font lost with upgrade ?
* #348697: rxvt-unicode: forget to load the app-defaults file
but they might be related to this issue instead of a separate
app-defaults issue?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages rxvt-unicode depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.11 Debian base system master password
ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-8 GCC support library
ii libperl5.8 5.8.8-1 Shared Perl library
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxpm4 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii ncurses-base 5.5-1 Descriptions of common terminal ty
rxvt-unicode recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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