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 libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU 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-14 Xaw3d 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]