From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13284 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2015 14:54:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13263 invoked by uid 89); 19 Oct 2015 14:54:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:54:30 +0000 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0254720B49 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:54:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:54:28 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-141-129-249.range86-141.btcentralplus.com [86.141.129.249]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7CB286800ED; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:54:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: git gui: assertion "font != NULL" failed References: <92e694ca84454eb1af326664492c05c7@XCH-RCD-019.cisco.com> <1445020196.12068.11.camel@cygwin.com> From: Jon Turney Cc: adam@dinwoodie.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <5625041F.6020702@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:54:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1445020196.12068.11.camel@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00297.txt.bz2 On 16/10/2015 19:29, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 17:09 +0000, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> A few days ago, I ran Setup to update my currently installed package, including my git packages. Since then, whenever I run git gui, I get the following error: >> >> $ git gui >> assertion "font != NULL" failed: file "/usr/src/ports/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.1-3.x86_64/src/fontconfig-2.11.1/src/fcmatch.c", line 453, function: FcFontRenderPrepare >> error: git-gui died of signal 6 >> >> cygcheck and xwin logs attached > > You don't have any Fontconfig-controlled fonts installed on your system. > On mine, the default seems to be dejavu-fonts, so try installing that, > although xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 might work as well. The dependency chain is git-gui -> gitk -> font-adobe-dpi75 It doesn't look like the fonts in xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 are available to fontconfig, so I've changed the dependency of gitk to dejavu-fonts on sourceware. Adam, You might wish to update your local setup.hint and/or select a better default. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple