[mythtv-users] MythFontManager: unable to load fonts

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Nov 23 22:37:11 UTC 2017


On 23/11/17 20:10, Tim Draper wrote:
> i'm getting a number of fonts that are failing to load when my freshly installed FE starts mythfrontend. the FE started life as centos7 minimal, and built up using EPEL as well as the NUX repo which is the  recommended repo on the mythtv wiki
> 
> starting mythfrontend shows the following (and a lot more font errors):
> ...
> 2017-11-23 19:37:57.819005 W  MythFontManager: Unable to load font(s) in file '/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf'
> 2017-11-23 19:37:57.819005 W  MythFontManager: Unable to load font(s) in file '/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf'
> ...
> 
> 
> going to that dir, shows all the files with permissions as -rw-r--r-- and filesize of 0bytes.
> so, i'm guessing it's the filesize thats the problem.
> 
> problem is, i cant find out how to fix it. am i missing a mythtv package and if so, what's it called?
> 

I had a thread ('Font niggle') about this on a 'buntu box not long ago. 
I thought I had cleared all nux packages from my el7 box, but

rpm -qa | grep -i Droid
google-droid-sans-mono-fonts-20120715-7.el7.nux.noarch

... which probably aren't what your errors are about.

Your 0-byte files may be links to the system font locations, where a 
similar package would probably put them.  My home-build of master, 
derived from a modified rpmfusion specfile, has real files in the 
mythtv/fonts folder.  They are in the mythtv-frontend package.

HTH

JohnP




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