Re: fontmap missing! gurulabs to blame? (NO|YES)

["Sergey I. Panov" <sipan mit edu>]

Dax Kelson wrote:
>
> > undertow:~ 43>gnumeric
> > Cannot read file /home/clouse/.gnome/fonts/fontmap :
> > gzopen failed: No such file or directory
> > Cannot read file /usr/share/fonts/fontmap :
> > gzopen failed: No such file or directory
> > Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font.
> 
> Did you install the gnome-print 0.6 rpm? 
> Maybe you tried to relocate the RPM, or installed gnumeric with --nodeps?
> 
> The file /usr/share/fonts/fontmap is generated when you install the
> gnome-print RPM by the gnome-font-install program.
> 

 That script failed to generate fontmap on my machine as well. The
error message was not descriptive to tell what had happend and why.
 

> It seems to work great, observe.
> 
> [dkelson@thud:/usr/share/fonts] ls -al
> total 119
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Sep  6 01:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x  58 root     root         2048 Sep  4 00:45 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jul 20 09:50 afms
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Jul 10 12:28 default
> [dkelson@thud:/usr/share/fonts] 
> 
> (no fontmap file, now I install gnome-print 0.6)
> 
> [dkelson@thud:/usr/share/fonts] rpm -Uvh
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/gnome-print-0.6-2.i386.rpm
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/gnome-print-devel-0.6-2.i386.rpm
> gnome-print
> ##################################################
> gnome-print-devel
> ##################################################
> [dkelson@thud:/usr/share/fonts] ls -al
> total 139
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Sep  6 01:24 .
> drwxr-xr-x  58 root     root         2048 Sep  4 00:45 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8740 Sep  6 01:22 X.font
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         7939 Sep  6 01:22 adobe-urw.font
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Sep  6 01:24 afms
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        43023 Sep  6 01:22 debian.font
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Jul 10 12:28 default
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        19418 Sep  6 01:24 fontmap
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          241 Sep  6 01:22 groff.font
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        42673 Sep  6 01:22 tex.font
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8453 Sep  6 01:22 urw-urw.font
> [dkelson@thud:/usr/share/fonts] 
> 
> Tadda! The fontmap file is there.


root@rwf /root]# cd /usr/share/fonts
[root@rwf fonts]# ls -la
total 121
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root         1024 Sep  8 19:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  70 root     root         2048 Sep  8 19:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         1024 Aug 12 16:21 ISO8859-2
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Aug 12 16:21 ISO8859-9
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8740 Sep  6 03:41 X.font
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         7939 Sep  6 03:41 adobe-urw.font
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Sep  8 19:34 afms
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        43023 Sep  6 03:41 debian.font
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Aug 12 16:19 default
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          241 Sep  6 03:41 groff.font
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        42673 Sep  6 03:41 tex.font
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8453 Sep  6 03:41 urw-urw.font
[root@rwf fonts]# rpm -q gnome-print gnome-print-devel
gnome-print-0.6-2
gnome-print-devel-0.6-2
[root@rwf fonts]# rpm -Uhv --force ~sipan/dnload/RH6.0/gnome_update/gnome-print-*
gnome-print                 ##################################################
gnome-print-devel           ##################################################
[root@rwf fonts]# ls -la
total 151
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root         1024 Sep  9 11:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  70 root     root         2048 Sep  8 19:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         1024 Aug 12 16:21 ISO8859-2
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Aug 12 16:21 ISO8859-9
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8740 Sep  6 03:41 X.font
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         7939 Sep  6 03:41 adobe-urw.font
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Sep  8 19:34 afms
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        43023 Sep  6 03:41 debian.font
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Aug 12 16:19 default
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        29126 Sep  9 11:54 fontmap
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          241 Sep  6 03:41 groff.font
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        42673 Sep  6 03:41 tex.font
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8453 Sep  6 03:41 urw-urw.font
[root@rwf fonts]# wc -l fontmap
    115 fontmap

 
 I do not know why it failed the first time. Wrong installation
order? I upgraded all packages by "rpm -Uhv *"

 Sergey