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ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf

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From: Martin Becze <mjbecze <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:22:16 -0500

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ungoogled-chromium will crash until font-gnu-freefont-ttf is installed.

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From: mjbecze <at> riseup.net
To: 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [Patch] add font-gnu-freefont-ttf propagated-inputs
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:59:50 -0700

hi this fixes bug 36632

---
 gnu/packages/chromium.scm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
index d072fc58ad..04ce780be0 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
   #:use-module (gnu packages cups)
   #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages fonts)
   #:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
   #:use-module (gnu packages freedesktop)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gcc)
@@ -763,6 +764,8 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
        ("udev" ,eudev)
        ("valgrind" ,valgrind)
        ("vulkan-headers" ,vulkan-headers)))
+    (propagated-inputs
+      `(("font-gnu-freefont-ttf" ,font-gnu-freefont-ttf)))
 
     ;; Building Chromium takes ... a very long time.  On a single core,
a busy
     ;; mid-end x86 system may need more than 24 hours to complete the
build.
-- 
2.22.0

Message #11 received at 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Martin Becze <mjbecze <at> riseup.net>
To: 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:16:37 -0500

bump :)

Message #14 received at 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: mjbecze <at> riseup.net
To: 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] add font-gnu-freefont-ttf propagated-inputs
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 18:25:35 -0700

On 2019-07-29 13:59, mjbecze <at> riseup.net wrote:
> hi this fixes bug 36632
> 
> ---
>  gnu/packages/chromium.scm | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
> index d072fc58ad..04ce780be0 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages cups)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages fonts)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages freedesktop)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages gcc)
> @@ -763,6 +764,8 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
>         ("udev" ,eudev)
>         ("valgrind" ,valgrind)
>         ("vulkan-headers" ,vulkan-headers)))
> +    (propagated-inputs
> +      `(("font-gnu-freefont-ttf" ,font-gnu-freefont-ttf)))
>  
>      ;; Building Chromium takes ... a very long time.  On a single core,
> a busy
>      ;; mid-end x86 system may need more than 24 hours to complete the
> build.


bump bump :)

Message #17 received at 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Martin Becze <mjbecze <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:36:24 +0200

Hi Martin,

> ungoogled-chromium will crash until font-gnu-freefont-ttf is installed.

Thank you for reporting this problem and proposing a patch.

I’d prefer not to propagate any fonts.  Do you happen to know what the
mechanism underlying the fix is?  Why does this fix the problem?  Why
does it crash in the first place?

Is this at all related to a stale font cache, perhaps?

-- 
Ricardo

Message #20 received at 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Martin Becze <mjbecze <at> riseup.net>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 03:34:02 -0700

On 2019-08-05 15:36, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
>> ungoogled-chromium will crash until font-gnu-freefont-ttf is installed.
> 
> Thank you for reporting this problem and proposing a patch.
> 
> I’d prefer not to propagate any fonts.  Do you happen to know what the
> mechanism underlying the fix is?  Why does this fix the problem?  Why
> does it crash in the first place?
> 
> Is this at all related to a stale font cache, perhaps?

So i got a chance to dig into this a bit. chromium needs a ttf font and
there are no fonts installed yet, so defaintly not a stale cache issue.
Chrome is crashing here
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/ui/gfx/platform_font_skia.cc#97
Its using fontconfig i think. I have no idea how to get chromium to read
fonts from a custom path.

Message #23 received at 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Martin Becze <mjbecze <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 36632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36632: ungoogled-chromium needs font-gnu-freefont-ttf
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:38:33 +0200

Hi Martin,

> So i got a chance to dig into this a bit. chromium needs a ttf font and
> there are no fonts installed yet, so defaintly not a stale cache issue.
> Chrome is crashing here
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/ui/gfx/platform_font_skia.cc#97
> Its using fontconfig i think. I have no idea how to get chromium to read
> fonts from a custom path.

Can we arrange for a default font to be returned by fontconfig?  Perhaps
the fix is not needed in Chromium but in fontconfig or our profile hooks?

-- 
Ricardo

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