[5020] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: X11R4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Jun 1 07:17:56 1990
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 07:17:35 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[4985]
From: nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 08:57:37 EDT
On a machine running X11R4 an error message is generated to the
effect that it cannot find the fonts. If I copy the fonts
directory to /tmp/vax, so that there is no capital letter in the
pathname and change the setenv line, the program executes. If
I change /tmp/vax to /tmp/Vax in both places, it doesn't.
I cannot duplicate this problem. Observe... with the normal R4
fonts, the "micro" font doesn't exist:
pit-manager% xlsfonts micro
xlsfonts: pattern "micro" unmatched
No, attach the OldXfonts filesystem and link the directory name
/tmp/oldfonts (notice, no capital letters) to it:
pit-manager% attach OldXfonts
OldXfonts: NFS mounted TALOS.MIT.EDU:/u2/lockers/OldXfonts on /mit/OldXfonts (read-write)
pit-manager% ln -s /mit/OldXfonts /tmp/oldfonts
After adding this directory to the font path (note the trailing
slash!), the micro font exists; after taking it away, the micro font
once again is missing:
pit-manager% xset fp+ /tmp/oldfonts/
pit-manager% xlsfonts micro
micro
pit-manager% xset fp- /tmp/oldfonts/
pit-manager% xlsfonts micro
xlsfonts: pattern "micro" unmatched
Now, do the same thing with a directory name with capital letters in
it:
pit-manager% rm /tmp/oldfonts
pit-manager% ln -s /mit/OldXfonts /tmp/OldFonts
pit-manager% xset fp+ /tmp/OldFonts/
pit-manager% xlsfonts micro
micro
pit-manager% xset fp- /tmp/OldFonts/
pit-manager% xlsfonts micro
xlsfonts: pattern "micro" unmatched
My best guess is that you left off the trailing slash when you ran
the xset command to add to the font path. If that's not the case,
please find me and demo this bug to me in person so that I can do a
bit more work figuring out what's wrong. If that is the case, please
let me know so I can close the bug report.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
