Bug#196220: marked as done (xfree86-common: problem with comma-seperated list of fonts)
Your message dated Tue, 5 Aug 2003 00:22:12 -0500
with message-id <20030805052212.GD17389@deadbeast.net>
and subject line xfree86-common: problem with comma-seperated list of fonts
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am
talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration
somewhere. Please contact me immediately.)
Debian bug tracking system administrator
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
--------------------------------------
Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 5 Jun 2003 14:04:27 +0000
>From sanders@theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de Thu Jun 05 09:04:27 2003
Return-path: <sanders@theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Received: from sulaco.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de [129.187.181.77]
by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian))
id 19NvLu-00044Q-00; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:04:26 -0500
Received: by sulaco.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 954)
id F18A128EB62; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:04:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Simon Anders <sanders@fs.tum.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: xfree86-common: problem with comma-seperated list of fonts
X-Mailer: reportbug 1.50
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:04:24 +0200
Message-Id: <20030605140424.F18A128EB62@sulaco.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0
tests=BAYES_30,HAS_PACKAGE
version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_24
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_24 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp)
Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.1.0-16
Severity: normal
If I try to run the program 'grok' (cf. package xmbase-grok) I get the following error message:
bash-2.05a$ grok
bash-2.05a$ grok: can't load font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1,-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-iso8859-1=BOLD,-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1=ITALIC"
This bug has already been reported as bug #85055 for the package xmbase-grok,
and has subsequently been closed unresolved because the package xmbase-grok is
orphaned. I would like to suggest to reopen the bug as problem of the X server
for the following reason:
My desktop computer runs Debian, my notebook RedHat Linux. If I start 'grok'
locally on my RedHat system, it works fine. But if I connect from my Debian
box to my RedHat notebook using 'ssh -X' and then remotely start 'grok',
hence running it on my Debian X server, I get the above mentioned error
message. Hence, the error appears, when grok is run on a Debian X server,
and does not appear, when grok is run on a RedHat X server, no matter
whether the grok binary runs on a Deian or a RedHat box.
IMHO, this suggests, that the reason for the error is a subtle difference
between RedHat's and Debian's XFree86 packages.
I hope these informations help you to investigate the matter. (Please note
that you don't need a RedHat box. Just install the xmbase-grok package and
run grok to reproduce the error.)
In case you need further information please ask me. (Sorry for not being able
to include everything necessary, but I am not an experienced Debian user.)
And TIA for looking at the problem, I would very much appreciate any help
with it.
Cheers,
Simon
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux sulaco 2.4.20-acheron #1 SMP Fri Mar 21 14:44:50 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xfree86-common depends on:
ii debianutils 1.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
bash-2.05a$ dpkg -s xfree86-common
Package: xfree86-common
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 840
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.1.0-16
---------------------------------------
Received: (at 196220-done) by bugs.debian.org; 5 Aug 2003 05:22:16 +0000
>From branden@deadbeast.net Tue Aug 05 00:22:13 2003
Return-path: <branden@deadbeast.net>
Received: from dhcp065-026-182-085.indy.rr.com (redwald.deadbeast.net) [65.26.182.85]
by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian))
id 19juGz-0004K1-00; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:22:13 -0500
Received: by redwald.deadbeast.net (Postfix, from userid 1000)
id 93199640BE; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 00:22:12 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 00:22:12 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
To: 196220-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: xfree86-common: problem with comma-seperated list of fonts
Message-ID: <20030805052212.GD17389@deadbeast.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5PPnVwj6ulmYFu5t"
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i
Delivered-To: 196220-done@bugs.debian.org
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.3 required=4.0
tests=BAYES_30,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,USER_AGENT_MUTT
version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_07_20
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_07_20 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp)
--5PPnVwj6ulmYFu5t
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I installed xmbase-grok and could not reproduce this problem.
Furthermore, xmbase-grok will not be shipping in the next release of
Debian, and no one has ever offered any more information on this bug.
I suspect font path configuration problems.
Closing this report. There's really nothing I can do about it.
--=20
G. Branden Robinson | Good judgement comes from
Debian GNU/Linux | experience; experience comes from
branden@debian.org | bad judgement.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Fred Brooks
--5PPnVwj6ulmYFu5t
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAj8vPwQACgkQ6kxmHytGonx0YwCggJGnwC6oC1ukN+AkLCTzwsUG
AJ0An3cX/KChRiALE0KHmegyNmruv6JB
=QsxW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--5PPnVwj6ulmYFu5t--
Reply to: