Bug#375314: xboard fails to start: X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)

[Alexander L. Belikoff]

I'm still trying to reproduce it in a fairly clean Sid installation and
still unable to reproduce.  Googling shows that the majority of cases
associated w/ X_OpenFont error are due to a corrupted font database. I
think, I might need more help from you:

1. You seem to be running KDE. Could you try running xboard in a Gnome
session? KDE by default does some nasty things to make regular X clients
follow it's choice of colors/fonts.

2. Please run the following shell script and if the output log does
contain an X protocol error message, please attach it to the bug entry.

xlsfonts | while read font; do
echo font is $font
xterm -fn $font -e true 21
done  run.log

Thanks
-- Sasha

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Bug#375314: xboard fails to start: X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)

[oliver]

At Tuesday 27 June 2006 14:00 you wrote:
 1. Could you please attach a full output of 'env'?

 2. Same request for 'xlsfonts' output.

 3. For one of the X clients that:
 a. Does use fonts
 b. Still works; and
 c. Has a resource file in /etc/X11/app-defaults/

   Could you please temporarily move the resource file someplace and try
 to launch the client to see if it would break it?

You can close the bug, I tried ssh -X to my station and xboard starts.

So it will have someting to do with the xorg transition from 6.9 to 7. I found 
an ressource at wiki.debian.org and it tells me to remove (purge) the 
xfonts-base package. That should fix it. I didn't try because other people 
use this machine too.

Thanx for the help.

Oliver 

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Bug#375314: xboard fails to start: X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)

[Alexander L. Belikoff]

So far, I was unable to reproduce the failure. However, I didn't use a
full Sid installation - only Etch and/or chroot'ed Sid. Still, let's try
to troubleshoot it. I assume it's still a problem, right?

1. Could you please attach a full output of 'env'?

2. Same request for 'xlsfonts' output.

3. For one of the X clients that:
a. Does use fonts
b. Still works; and
c. Has a resource file in /etc/X11/app-defaults/

  Could you please temporarily move the resource file someplace and try
to launch the client to see if it would break it?

Thanks,
-- Sasha

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Bug#375314: xboard fails to start: X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)

[Oliver Korff]

Package: xboard
Version: 4.2.7-6
Severity: important

This behavior appeared after an upgrade, *without* xboard being
upgraded. I assume its a encoding/font problem. In my env settings there
is a new LANG=en_US.UTF-8, but all applications defaults in /etc say
iso8859:

Example:
X11/app-defaults/Xditview-chrtr:H
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\

There is no default in /etc for xboard 

Here is the whole line of the error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xboard
X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request:  18
Current serial number in output stream:  19

Now whats strace says (short version)

access(/usr/lib/X11/en_US.UTF-8/app-defaults/XBoard, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
access(/usr/lib/X11/en/app-defaults/XBoard, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
access(/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XBoard, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
access(/etc/X11/en_US.UTF-8/app-defaults/XBoard-color, R_OK) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access(/etc/X11/en/app-defaults/XBoard-color, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
access(/etc/X11/app-defaults/XBoard-color, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
access(/etc/X11/en_US.UTF-8/app-defaults/XBoard, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
access(/etc/X11/en/app-defaults/XBoard, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
access(/etc/X11/app-defaults/XBoard, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
write(3, \20\1\t\0\33\0\0\0XDCCC_LINEAR_RGB_CORRECT..., 36) = 36
read(3, \1\0\v\0\0\0\0\0\216\0\0\0\0\0\0\0$\0\0\0$\0\0\0(\0\0\0...,
32) = 32
write(3, \20\1\t\0\31\0\0\0XDCCC_LINEAR_RGB_MATRICE..., 36) = 36
read(3, \1\0\f\0\0\0\0\0\217\0\0\0\0\0\0\0$\0\0\0$\0\0\0(\0\0\0...,
32) = 32
write(3, \24\0\6\0L\0\0\0\217\0\0\0\23\0\0\0\0\0\0\0t\31\0\0, 24) = 24
read(3, \1\0\r\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\30\0\0\0(\0\0..., 32)
= 32
write(3, T\0\4\0 \0\0\0\0\356\0\356\0\346\0\0, 16) = 16
read(3, \1\0\16\0\0\0\0\0\276\357\276\357\235\347\0\0|\357\0\0..., 32)
= 32
stat64(/usr/lib/X11/Xcms.txt, 0xafd35fdc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
writev(3, [{U\0\5\0 \0\0\0\5\0\0\356, 12}, {black, 5}, {\0\0\0,
3}], 3) = 20
read(3, \1\0\17\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0(\0\0..., 32)
= 32
getpid()= 567
gettimeofday({1151181940, 526660}, {4294967176, 0}) = 0
write(3, \20\1\6\0\20\0\0\0WM_DELETE_WINDOW, 24) = 24
read(3, \1\0\20\0\0\0\0\0A\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\30\0\0\0\30\0\0\0(\0\0...,
32) = 32
writev(3, [{1\1\r\0?B+\0, 8}, {-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-...,
43}, {\0, 1}], 3) = 52
read(3, \1\260\21\0\203\t\0\0\240\0\0\0\220\254\224\10\250\260..., 32)
= 32
readv(3, [{-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-..., 9740}, {, 0}], 2) =
9740
writev(3, [{-\1\23\0\1\0`\3\0_D-adobe-helvetica-bol..., 84},
{XFree86-Bigfont, 15}, {\0, 1}], 3) = 100
read(3, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 32)
= 32
open(/usr/share/X11/XErrorDB, O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=37893, ...}) = 0
brk(0x81d6000)  = 0x81d6000
read(4, ! $Xorg: XErrorDB,v 1.3 2000/08/..., 37893) = 37893
close(4)= 0
write(2, X Error of failed request:  BadN..., 75X Error of failed
request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xboard depends on:
ii  libc62.3.6-15GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6  1:1.0.0-3   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6   1:1.0.0-4   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6   X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6 1:1.0.0-4   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6  1:1.0.1-3   X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4  1:3.5.4.2-3 X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6   1:1.0.0-5   X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xaw3dg   1.5+E-14Xaw3d widget set

Versions of packages xboard recommends:
ii  xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-2  100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi  1:1.0.0-2  100 dpi fonts for X

-- no debconf information


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