bug#24279: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig

[Alex Kost]

John Darrington (2016-08-22 16:41 +0300) wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:36:26AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
>      John Darrington (2016-08-21 16:18 +0300) wrote:
>
>      > In GuixSD:
>      >
>      > guix package -i xterm strace
>      > strace xterm
>      >
>      > xterm starts as it should,  however observe many failed calls similar 
> to:
>      >  
> open("/gnu/store/b484nvn9nnr3ddclpz2fma9yxmimg2jj-fontconfig-2.11.94/lib/libXdmcp.so.6",
>      > O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>      >
>      >
>      > Now in the xterm, hold down Ctrl and press any mouse button.
>      > The xterm aborts with the following messages:
>      >  Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
>      >  Error: Aborting: no font found
>
>      Pressing Ctrl with any mouse button displays menus for me without any
>      error.  Did you install any font in your profile?  Try for example,
>      "guix package -i font-dejavu".  Perhaps you will also need to run
>      "fc-cache -f".
>
> So that means that font-dejavu should be an input of xterm.  Shall I make that
> change?

I have no idea :-) I don't know why you get that error and how to fix
it, I just made a guess.

--
Alex