Re: xawtv: no font found

[Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com>]

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On 27 August 2017 at 20:31, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dmitry Nikolaev (2017-08-26 22:25 +0300) wrote:
>
> > Hello. I wrote a package file for Xawtv. It builds, but not runs.
> >
> > $ xawtv
> > xawtv: Relink `/gnu/store/
> > 88wvqp60hbrdvbp0xsqad5c6njjfshcw-libpng-1.6.28/lib/libpng16.so.16'
> > with `/gnu/store/ybpgv1v7606xw7mafda66w10hiynpiw2-glibc-2.25/lib/
> > libpthread.so.0' for IFUNC symbol `longjmp'
> > xawtv: Relink `/gnu/store/
> > 2sq8w3x8glbjlfn22im6nwwycmbdlzws-freetype-2.7.1/lib/libfreetype.so.6'
> > with `/gnu/store/ybpgv1v7606xw7mafda66w10hiynpiw2-glibc-2.25/lib/
> > libpthread.so.0' for IFUNC symbol `longjmp'
> > This is xawtv-3.103, running on Linux/x86_64 (4.11.12)
> > vid-open-auto: using grabber/webcam device /dev/video0
> > Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> > Error: Aborting: no font found
> >
> >
> > What should I do to solve this issue? How to tell xawtv about any
> > usable font?
>
> I don't know but I looked at nix package and I don't see anything
> specific there:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/
> applications/video/xawtv/default.nix
>
> Perhaps you just missed some dependencies? ('fontsproto' maybe)


No, it's not fontsproto. Besides, what about xlsfonts (which works in
GuixSD) and xfontsel (which fails with same error I got with xawtv)? Does
anybody have working xfontsel in GuixSD?

Dmitry Nikolaev

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