[debbugs-tracker] bug#24279: closed (xterm aborts upon ctrl+click)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #24279,
regarding xterm aborts upon ctrl+click
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Bug in xterm and/or fontconfig Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:18:06 +0200 User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

In GuixSD:

guix package -i xterm strace
strace xterm

xterm starts as it should,  however observe many failed calls similar to:
 
open("/gnu/store/b484nvn9nnr3ddclpz2fma9yxmimg2jj-fontconfig-2.11.94/lib/libXdmcp.so.6",
 O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)


Now in the xterm, hold down Ctrl and press any mouse button.
The xterm aborts with the following messages:
 Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
 Error: Aborting: no font found



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> Hello,
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> Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
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> >> We can also fix this once and for all with this patch:
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> >> diff --git a/gnu/services/xorg.scm b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
> >> index 0da3397da..8f285b29a 100644
> >> --- a/gnu/services/xorg.scm
> >> +++ b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
> >> @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@
> >>          (file-append font-alias "/share/fonts/X11/100dpi")
> >>          (file-append font-alias "/share/fonts/X11/misc")
> >>          (file-append font-alias "/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic")
> >> +        (file-append font-misc-misc               ;default fonts for xterm
> >> +                     "/share/fonts/X11/misc")
> >>          (file-append font-adobe75dpi "/share/fonts/X11/75dpi")))
> >>  
> >>  (define* (xorg-configuration-file #:key
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> >> That adds 4.1 MiB, but it saves user headaches, so I think it’s worth it.
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> >> I’ll go ahead and push that if there are no objections.
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> > And another bug down! :) Thanks for fixing it; LGTM!
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> Awesome, I went ahead and pushed as
> 4afc903a8c1b9cb19c0341b5cd2ea80a34974f25.
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> Thanks everyone!
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> Ludo’.
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