Problems with xclock in recent versions

[Harold L Hunt II]

William,

I looked into this briefly and noticed that it is some sort of problem 
with /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.cache-1.  I figured this out 
by copying the config files from each font directory, in turn, from a 
machine that didn't have the problem to a machine that does have the 
problem.  None of the config files fixed the problem until I copied over 
the Type1 config files.

Then, I did a 'diff' to see what has changed between the files... 
NOTHING!  Weird.  Then I replaced the old config files and made sure 
that I could duplicate the error; I could.

Finally, I figured out that you can simply 'touch' the 'fonts.cache-1' 
file to fix the problem:

touch /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.cache-1


I will eventually make a new package for the Type1 fonts, but I would 
like to understand the problem better, and why the solution works, 
before I do that.

Can anyone offer some insight on this?

Thanks for the bug report,

Harold

William A. Gianopoulos wrote:
> For at least the last couple of weeks, I have had a problem with xclock. 
>  When I start xclock, I receive the message:
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string "" to type XftFont
> 
> If I try to start xclock in digital mode I additionally get:
> 
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> This is all with the latest and greatest (as of this morning) Cygwin 
> distribution.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
>