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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24279: XTerm menu doesn't work (no font found error)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:56:48 -0500
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To: ng0 <ng0@n0.is>
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Hi ng0,

ng0 <ng0@n0.is> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer transcribed 0.5K bytes:
>> I can reproduce this on GuixSD (foreign distros are OK).
>> 
>> By going to tty0 (Ctrl-Alt-F1) we can see the following text which gets
>> output at every crash:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8059 font
>> ERROR: Aborting: no font found
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> Apparently there is a patch which might fix that problem, available
>> here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-12/msg00165.html
>> 
>> Maxim
>
> Good catch, it was just forgotten. Would you like to work on the suggestions
> Ludovic gave John? It's unlikely that John will work on them after John
> more-or-less left Guix.

Yes, it's on my TODO! Thanks for the reminder :)

Maxim