Subject: Re: bug#24279: XTerm menu doesn't work (no font found error)

From: ng0 <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:41:43 +0000

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.
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