[SOLVED] xscreensaver works but prompt has no text

bgstack15 · 2019-03-02 03:06:49

devuan ceres amd64, from a netinst. I did not select the desktop package in the install screen, and I use apt-get to select lightdm, fluxbox, etc.

I am running fluxbox and xscreensaver. Xscreensaver operates, and shows me the username and the asterisks for the password entry. However, the prompt has no text. Even the buttons have no text!

link to image from my phone

I ran the daemon with -log and -verbose.

##########################################################################
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: logging to "/home/bgstack15-local/log/xscreen1" at Fri Mar  1 21:38:27 2019
##########################################################################

xscreensaver 5.42, copyright (c) 1991-2018 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: running as bgstack15-local/bgstack15-local (1000/1000)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: in process 3904.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: running on display ":0.0"
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: vendor is The X.Org Foundation, 12003000.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: useful extensions:
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   MIT Screen-Saver (disabled at compile time)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   Shared Memory (1.2)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   Double-Buffering (1.0)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   Power Management (1.1)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   GLX
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   XF86 Video-Mode (2.2)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   XC Misc (disabled at compile time)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   Xinerama (1.1)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   Resize-and-Rotate (1.5)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:   XInput
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: screen 0 non-colormapped depths: 24.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: WARNING: RANDR and Xinerama report different
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:                 screen layouts!  Believing RANDR.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: screens in use: 2
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:    1/0: 1920x1080+0+0 (HDMI-0)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:    2/0: 1920x1080+1920+0 (DVI-0)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: rejected screens: 1
xscreensaver: 21:38:27:    0/0: 1920x1080+0+0 (DisplayPort-0) -- output disabled
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: selecting RANDR events
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: not using XInputExtension.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: consulting /proc/interrupts for keyboard activity.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: 0: visual 0x21 (TrueColor,   depth: 24, cmap: default)
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: 0: saver window is 0x2000001.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: 1: saver window is 0x2000005.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: selecting events on extant windows... done.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: mouse is on screen 0 of 2
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: awaiting idleness.
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: mouse is on screen 0 of 2
xscreensaver: 21:38:27: awaiting idleness.

I cannot get the message on the actual lock screen to show up again with a camera good enough to take a picture of the words. But it said something about not finding libgnome.so. I was having trouble figuring out where libgnome.so should come from, (libgnome-2-0 is descrbed as deprecated?).

$ dpkg -l | grep -iE 'font|xscreen'
ii  console-setup                           1.189                              all          console font and keymap setup program
ii  fontconfig                              2.13.1-2                           amd64        generic font configuration library - support binaries
ii  fontconfig-config                       2.13.1-2                           all          generic font configuration library - configuration
ii  fonts-dejavu-core                       2.37-1                             all          Vera font family derivate with additional characters
ii  fonts-droid-fallback                    1:6.0.1r16-1.1                     all          handheld device font with extensive style and language support (fallback)
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf                      20120503-9                         all          Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
ii  fonts-liberation                        1:1.07.4-9                         all          Fonts with the same metrics as Times, Arial and Courier
ii  fonts-noto-mono                         20181227-1                         all          "No Tofu" monospaced font family with large Unicode coverage
ii  fonts-wine                              4.0-1                              all          Windows API implementation - fonts
ii  gsfonts                                 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.4       all          Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii  kbd                                     2.0.4-4                            amd64        Linux console font and keytable utilities
ii  libfont-afm-perl                        1.20-2                             all          Font::AFM - Interface to Adobe Font Metrics files
ii  libfontconfig1:amd64                    2.13.1-2                           amd64        generic font configuration library - runtime
ii  libfontembed1:amd64                     1.21.6-4                           amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - Font Embed Shared library
ii  libfontenc1:amd64                       1:1.1.3-1+b2                       amd64        X11 font encoding library
ii  libfreetype6:amd64                      2.9.1-3                            amd64        FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libgraphite2-3:amd64                    1.3.13-7                           amd64        Font rendering engine for Complex Scripts -- library
ii  libwoff1:amd64                          1.0.2-1                            amd64        library for converting fonts to WOFF 2.0
ii  libxfont2:amd64                         1:2.0.3-1                          amd64        X11 font rasterisation library
ii  libxft2:amd64                           2.3.2-2                            amd64        FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii  xfonts-base                             1:1.0.5                            all          standard fonts for X
ii  xfonts-encodings                        1:1.0.4-2                          all          Encodings for X.Org fonts
ii  xfonts-terminus                         4.40-2                             all          Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  xfonts-utils                            1:7.7+6                            amd64        X Window System font utility programs
ii  xscreensaver                            5.42+dfsg1-1                       amd64        Screensaver daemon and frontend for X11
ii  xscreensaver-data                       5.42+dfsg1-1                       amd64        Screen saver modules for screensaver frontends

Is there something basic I'm missing? In fedora/centos, I could list the group name such as '^Xfce desktop' and trying to install that would prompt me with the names of the exact packages to install. I am concerned that tasksel wouldn't ask me for the exact packages and it would just go ahead and run something much larger than I want, but I've boiled it down to a million packages.

$ tasksel --task-packages desktop
task-desktop
$ sudo apt-get install task-desktop                                                                                   
Reading package lists... Done                                                                                                                                    
Building dependency tree                                                                                                                                         
Reading state information... Done                
...TRUNCATED...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  anacron ant ant-contrib ant-optional atril atril-common ca-certificates-java coinor-libcbc3 coinor-libcgl1 coinor-libclp1
  coinor-libcoinmp1v5 coinor-libcoinutils3v5 coinor-libosi1v5 crda cups-pk-helper default-jre default-jre-headless
  desktop-file-utils espeak-ng-data exfalso exo-utils firebird3.0-common firebird3.0-common-doc firebird3.0-server-core
  firebird3.0-utils firefox fonts-crosextra-caladea fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-font-awesome
  fonts-lato fonts-liberation2 fonts-linuxlibertine fonts-mathjax fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-opensymbol
  fonts-roboto-slab fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic gdisk gimp-data gir1.2-atspi-2.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
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0 upgraded, 490 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 405 MB of archives.

Does anyone have any bright ideas as to which of these 490 packages will get the fonts/stuff needed for my xscreensaver to show the words?
So far in my non-EL, non-systemd journey I've discovered that while yum might be slow, its output is way easier to understand.

Last edited by bgstack15 (2019-03-06 23:27:40)

Panopticon · 2019-03-02 15:35:55

have you tried xscreensaver-demo ?

https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/xsc … .1.en.html

bgstack15 · 2019-03-04 13:41:58

Yes, I generated the .xscreensaver file using xscreensaver-demo as expected.

KatolaZ · 2019-03-04 17:48:48

It looks more like you need elogind/consolekit installed, rather than fonts, IMHO.

bgstack15 · 2019-03-05 03:18:15

$ ps -ef | grep -iE 'elogin|consolekit'
root 1932 1 0 Mar03 ? 00:00:00 elogind-daemon
bgstack15 14383 14329 0 22:00 pts/6 00:00:00 grep -iE elogin|consolekit

I read up a very tiny bit on elogind and consolekit, but not enough to understand them in depth. I did discover that my default runlevel is 5, but elogind only creates the extra vtys for runlevels 2 and 3 by default. That would explain why I couldn't raise a terminal with CTRL+ALT+F2. Well, time to change my runlevel and reboot! Thanks for this research effort.

bgstack15 · 2019-03-05 03:29:20

I rebooted in runlevel 2 (which I remember being the original value in /etc/inittab) and now I've got all the vtys. However, my xscreensaver still shows no text in the prompt.
The reason I have this question on the devuan forum is because when I used a "Desktop install" in the installation prompts, the xscreensaver worked. I've even run an strace on the xscreensaver-command -lock and the xscreensaver daemon, on both my control system and my malfunctioning system, and couldn't come up with any observable differences that provided useful avenues to research.

Panopticon · 2019-03-05 14:00:03

maybe post up your .xscreensaver dotfile?

Check see what the font setting is.

I used xscreensaver for a while but no longer use, instead just have i3lock with no screensaver.

also if you want to try other x fonts in place of what is there install xorg-xlsfonts and do something like below to list fonts to place in .xscreensaver

xlsfonts | grep helvetica

Edit: not really sure but maybe these fonts are needed and not installed

https://packages.debian.org/stable/font … transcoded

Last edited by Panopticon (2019-03-05 14:10:23)

bgstack15 · 2019-03-06 03:10:34

# XScreenSaver Preferences File
# Written by xscreensaver-demo 5.42 for bgstack15 on Sun Mar  3 18:11:54 2019.
# https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

timeout:        0:10:00
cycle:          0:10:00
lock:           True
lockTimeout:    0:05:00
passwdTimeout:  0:00:30
visualID:       default
installColormap:    True
verbose:        False
timestamp:      True
splash:         True
splashDuration: 0:00:05
demoCommand:    xscreensaver-demo
prefsCommand:   xscreensaver-demo -prefs
nice:           10
memoryLimit:    0
fade:           False
unfade:         False
fadeSeconds:    0:00:03
fadeTicks:      20
captureStderr:  True
ignoreUninstalledPrograms:False
font:           *-medium-r-*-140-*-m-*
dpmsEnabled:    False
dpmsQuickOff:   False
dpmsStandby:    2:00:00
dpmsSuspend:    2:00:00
dpmsOff:        4:00:00
grabDesktopImages:  False
grabVideoFrames:    False
chooseRandomImages: False
imageDirectory:

mode:           one
selected:       154

textMode:       date
textLiteral:    XScreenSaver
textFile:
textProgram:    fortune
textURL:        https://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml

programs:                                                                     \
                                maze -root                                  \n\
- GL:                           superquadrics -root                         \n\
...TRUNCATED...

pointerPollTime:    0:00:05
pointerHysteresis:  10
windowCreationTimeout:0:00:30
initialDelay:   0:00:00
GetViewPortIsFullOfLies:False
procInterrupts: True
xinputExtensionDev: False
overlayStderr:  True
authWarningSlack:   20

I ran xlsfonts (it was already present from x11-utils from when I was troubleshooting other, fluxbox stuff) and didn't see any helvetica, or anything that matches a regex similar to the (shell-glob-resembling) conf entry.

$ xlsfonts | grep -E 'medium-r-.*-140-.*-m-'
$ xlsfonts | grep -i helv
$

Submitting now so I don't lose my large post, but I'm still investigating.

bgstack15 · 2019-03-06 04:03:34

No go. It still shows the splash screen and unlock prompt with no words whatsoever.

Panopticon · 2019-03-06 12:01:18

Not sure what is going on sorry.

What i mean by using xlsfonts is try a few fonts from a list of xfonts, you should have bitstream installed so put the below line in place of where your fonts is in the xsceensaver, this just to narrow it down as not a font issue perhaps?

-bitstream-terminal-medium-r-normal--18-140-100-100-c-110-iso8859-1

Not saying that helvetica is something to search for but it should bring up the adobe helvetica fonts atleast.

try...

xlsfonts | grep adobe

bgstack15 · 2019-03-06 23:26:30

After taking some time to briefly understand how fonts are named/identified, I learned about how to use this command.

xlsfonts -fn '*-*-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*'

After installing a lot of fonts, it still wasn't working. After a reboot I think (and a day later), it's working now!
Thank you for your help, everybody.

The last few entries from my /var/log/apt/history.log

Start-Date: 2019-03-05  22:11:47
Commandline: apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-100dpi-transcoded
Requested-By: bgstack15 (960600001)
Install: xfonts-100dpi-transcoded:amd64 (1:1.0.4+nmu1), xfonts-100dpi:amd64 (1:1.0.4+nmu1)
End-Date: 2019-03-05  22:12:19

Start-Date: 2019-03-05  22:37:30
Commandline: apt-get install i3lock
Requested-By: bgstack15 (960600001)
Install: libxcb-xrm0:amd64 (1.0-3, automatic), libev4:amd64 (1:4.25-1, automatic), i3lock:amd64 (2.11.1-1)
End-Date: 2019-03-05  22:37:38

Start-Date: 2019-03-05  22:39:14
Commandline: apt-get purge i3lock
Requested-By: bgstack15 (960600001)
Purge: i3lock:amd64 (2.11.1-1)
End-Date: 2019-03-05  22:39:18

Start-Date: 2019-03-05  22:41:02
Commandline: apt-get purge i3lock libev4 libxcb-xrm0
Requested-By: bgstack15 (960600001)
Purge: libxcb-xrm0:amd64 (1.0-3), libev4:amd64 (1:4.25-1)
End-Date: 2019-03-05  22:41:05

Start-Date: 2019-03-05  22:49:32
Commandline: apt-get install fonts-crosextra-caladea fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-font-awesome
Requested-By: bgstack15 (960600001)
Install: fonts-font-awesome:amd64 (5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-1), fonts-dejavu:amd64 (2.37-1), fonts-crosextra-carlito:amd64 (20130920-1), fonts-dejavu-extra:amd64 (2.37-1), fonts-crosextra-caladea:amd64 (20130214-2)
End-Date: 2019-03-05  22:49:42

Start-Date: 2019-03-05  22:50:11
Commandline: apt-get install fonts-crosextra-caladea fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-font-awesome fonts-lato fonts-liberation2 fonts-linuxlibertine fonts-mathjax fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-opensymbol fonts-roboto-slab fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic
Requested-By: bgstack15 (960600001)
Install: fonts-linuxlibertine:amd64 (5.3.0-4), fonts-mathjax:amd64 (2.7.4+dfsg-1), fonts-noto-ui-core:amd64 (20181227-1), fonts-sil-gentium-basic:amd64 (1.102-1), fonts-roboto-slab:amd64 (1.100263+20170512-1), fonts-lato:amd64 (2.0-2), fonts-opensymbol:amd64 (2:102.10+LibO6.1.5-1), fonts-noto-core:amd64 (20181227-1), fonts-sil-gentium:amd64 (20081126:1.03-2)
End-Date: 2019-03-05  22:50:50

I think it was the large swath of fonts at the end, and a reboot.

bgstack15 · 2019-06-29 12:35:55

On yet another Devuan netinst instance, I had this problem again.
I ended up installing a lot of font packages, and rebooting. I guess restarting X or else rebooting triggers a cache update for the fonts?

apt-get install fonts-crosextra-caladea fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-font-awesome fonts-lato fonts-liberation2 fonts-linuxlibertine fonts-mathjax fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-opensymbol fonts-roboto-slab fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic
apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-100dpi-transcoded freetype2-doc gsfonts libfreetype6 libfontembed1 fonts-noto-mono fonts-liberation fonts-droid-fallback

The next time I try this, I will do just this bottom line, and report back here. I don't want to have to install the phone book, if I only need a single one of these packages.

bgstack15 · 2019-12-26 13:32:21

I have boiled it down, to just needing this set of packages:

apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-100dpi-transcoded freetype2-doc gsfonts libfreetype6 libfontembed1 fonts-noto-mono fonts-liberation fonts-droid-fallback

and a reboot.

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