I'm having a related problem. The fragment of code listed by Peter De Wachter in the initial report does not break pygame for me, but using "serif" instead does.
I traced the problem down to incorrect parsing of a fonts.dir file (as opposed to a fonts.cache-1 file, as in the earlier case). My /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/fonts.dir (covering apparently only fonts from the ttf-freefont package) looks like this: -------- 21 FreeMono.ttf -misc-FreeMono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeMonoBold.ttf -misc-FreeMono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf -misc-FreeMono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeMonoOblique.ttf -misc-FreeMono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSans.ttf -misc-FreeSans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0 FreeSans.ttf -misc-FreeSans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSansBold.ttf -misc-FreeSans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf -misc-FreeSans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSansOblique.ttf -misc-FreeSans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSerif.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0 FreeSerif.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSerifBold.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0 FreeSerifBold.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 FreeSerifItalic.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 bw=0.5:FreeSans.ttf -misc-FreeSans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1 bw=0.5:FreeSans.ttf -misc-FreeSans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 bw=0.5:FreeSerif.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1 bw=0.5:FreeSerif.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 bw=0.5:FreeSerifBold.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1 bw=0.5:FreeSerifBold.ttf -misc-FreeSerif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0201.1976-0 -------- Those last few lines are what's causing the breakage; pygame thinks that "bw=0.5:FreeSerifBold.ttf" is a filename, when in fact it is not. I don't know exactly what the stuff before the colon means; possibly it's that TTCap stuff [1], but it soudns like that is supposed to have a colon before it too. Not too important, as sysfont.py:read_unix_fontsdir() would be parsing them wrong in either case. It should ignore everything up to the last colon in the field it's using as a filename. Alternatively, use the patch provided by Peter, as fc-list seems to know how to handle that sort of thing and everything is happy. [1] http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/fonts4.html#26 -- paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
