Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font

clavisound · 02-16-2017, 10:57 AM

Code:

bash-4.3$ xmessage test
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Segmentation fault

bash-4.3$ xfig 
Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Σφάλμα κατάτμησης (segmentation fault)

Same goes for all the xapp (xcalc, xclock: opens but with the same warning)

strace xmessage test
http://pastebin.com/snjDdZmX

fc-list
http://pastebin.com/rEjHUavt

I din't like the empty line at 259. I removed the indic fonts. Still the same problem.

Mind you I have a "frankestein" installation.

First installation from 2007, and from last week I manually "upgraded" from 32-bit to 64-bit. Maybe some stalled conf file is messing? Or I forgot some package?

Any ideas?

smallpond · 02-17-2017, 09:40 AM

Old X-Windows used xfs - the X font server. Your new installation may require fontconfig. See what's in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

clavisound · 02-20-2017, 10:12 AM

Thank you.

I don't remember to have touched that file. Seems ok.
http://pastebin.com/7vFjwACT

Any more ideas?

jostber · 02-20-2017, 11:22 AM

Would a "slackpkg update && slackpkg install-new && slackpkg upgrade-all" help out here?

clavisound · 07-04-2017, 03:47 PM

Resurrecting this topic.

After some updates (with slapt-get) everything is normal. Unfortunately I don't realize which update is the solver.

Here is my update story. Freetype is updated in May, so maybe this was the solution.

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,7K Ιούλ  1 12:21 openvpn-2.3.17-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  978 Ιούλ  1 12:21 nasm-2.13.01-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  92K Ιούλ  1 12:21 mozilla-thunderbird-52.2.1-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  60K Ιούλ  1 12:19 mozilla-firefox-52.2.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,6K Ιούλ  1 12:17 mkinitrd-1.4.10-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,3K Ιούλ  1 12:17 libgcrypt-1.7.8-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31K Ιούλ  1 12:13 httpd-2.4.26-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  70K Ιούλ  1 12:13 glibc-zoneinfo-2017b-noarch-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,4K Ιούλ  1 12:13 glibc-solibs-2.23-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,1K Ιούλ  1 12:13 glibc-profile-2.23-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258K Ιούλ  1 12:13 glibc-i18n-2.23-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23K Ιούλ  1 12:12 glibc-2.23-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14K Ιούλ  1 12:11 bind-9.10.5_P2-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,8K Ιούν 15 14:25 sudo-1.8.20p2-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,3K Ιούν 15 14:25 pkg-config-0.29.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K Ιούν 15 14:25 irssi-1.0.3-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,5K Μάι  31 20:44 lynx-2.8.8rel.2-x86_64-3_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  51K Μάι  25 16:07 samba-4.4.14-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,2K Μάι  23 19:23 gkrellm-2.3.10-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157K Μάι  17 21:24 kdelibs-4.14.32-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,2K Μάι  17 21:24 freetype-2.6.3-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25K Μάι   3 22:32 xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.9-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,0K Μάι   3 22:32 rxvt-2.7.10-x86_64-5_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11K Απρ  24 22:30 proftpd-1.3.5e-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23K Απρ  24 22:29 ntp-4.2.8p10-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,6K Απρ  24 22:28 minicom-2.7.1-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,4K Απρ  24 22:28 getmail-4.54.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,7K Απρ  17 19:09 libtiff-4.0.7-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21K Μάρ  30 17:06 mariadb-10.0.30-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17K Μάρ  28 09:03 mcabber-1.0.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  54K Μάρ  20 14:24 pidgin-2.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,6K Μάρ   8 14:10 libcgroup-0.41-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,1K Φεβ  13 15:57 tcpdump-4.9.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25K Φεβ  13 15:57 php-5.6.30-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,6K Φεβ  13 15:56 openssl-solibs-1.0.2k-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  36K Φεβ  13 15:56 openssl-1.0.2k-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,1K Φεβ  13 15:55 libpcap-1.8.1-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  28K Φεβ   6 00:06 xscreensaver-5.36-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,2K Φεβ   6 00:06 stunnel-5.35-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,7K Φεβ   6 00:06 seamonkey-solibs-2.46-x86_64-3_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 347K Φεβ   6 00:05 seamonkey-2.46-x86_64-3_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  19K Φεβ   6 00:03 sdl-1.2.15-x86_64-5_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1K Φεβ   6 00:03 screen-4.4.0-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9,0K Φεβ   6 00:03 scim-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 252K Φεβ   6 00:02 python-2.7.13-x86_64-2_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1K Φεβ   6 00:00 openssh-7.4p1-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,8K Φεβ   5 23:56 loudmouth-1.5.3-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,5K Φεβ   5 23:56 libpng-1.6.27-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,2K Φεβ   5 23:56 libidn-1.33-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,1K Φεβ   5 23:55 libXvMC-1.0.10-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,9K Φεβ   5 23:55 libXv-1.0.11-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,9K Φεβ   5 23:55 libXtst-1.2.3-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,2K Φεβ   5 23:55 libXrender-0.9.10-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,7K Φεβ   5 23:55 libXrandr-1.5.1-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,8K Φεβ   5 23:55 libXi-1.7.8-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,1K Φεβ   5 23:55 libXfixes-5.0.3-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  50K Φεβ   5 23:55 libX11-1.6.4-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,3K Φεβ   5 23:53 intltool-0.51.0-x86_64-3_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  61K Φεβ   5 23:53 gtk+2-2.24.31-x86_64-1_slack14.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  56K Φεβ   5 23:53 gnutls-3.5.8-x86_64-1_slack14.2

Thank you guys for the effort.