Bug#946699: wine: Lotus Notes 6.5 font drop down list corrupt after upgrade to buster

[Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org>]

Hello Wolfgang,

Am 16.12.19 um 18:18 schrieb Wolfgang Rosner:


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Sorry, there was a -a too much inside the quotation marks.


> I get a log file of 13 MB in Size.
> Notes displays its splash screen, but then finishes.

> I found many fonts not displayed in notes, but no single trace of those
> corrupt font names listed in the Notes client.

Found also nothing obvious in the output, but maybe to be expected
when the point showing the dropdown was not reached.


> May I suspect that the sheer number of fonts may cause some kind of
> index overrun in 20 year old Lotus Notes?

Maybe one plausible explanation.


>>     /home/user/wine-4.20/wine notepad.exe
> But to my impression, this only keeps binaries in sync, not prefixes,
> not fonts.
>>     export WINEPREFIX=/home/user/wine-prefix-for-test
> But how can I set up a pristine wineprefix with pristine minimal font
> configuration, matching the version in test?
> 
> Sorry, I know, that's a question for the wine forum. 
> Or gidf before.

Both combined should create a wine-prefix populated by
the self-built wine, I guess.

Oh and what I forgot in my last email - to properly separate things,
you could create a different system user.

Grüße in den Nachbarlandkreis :-)
Bernhard