Description of problem: After installing emacs, and starting it, the X version displays all the menus as square boxes because of missing fonts. (I will add an attachment) Installing the package "abattis-cantarell-fonts-0.201-4.mga8.noarch" seems to resolve the problem, and I suspect this package should be a dependency for the emacs rpm. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 27.1-1.1.mga8 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install emacs 2. Run emacs (with X display available.)
Created attachment 13325 [details] Image of emacs with missing font.
Which desktop environment are you using? It seems a dependency for Gnome and Plasma as it want's to remove them when you try to uninstall abattis-cantarell-fonts.
Currently the system doesn't have a desktop environment installed. My starting point was the docker image which was slide-loaded into WSL. For completeness I then reinstalled all rpms currently used by the system to fix other issues. Finally I installed emacs (to edit some essential files). The system doesn't have a DE, or even X11/Wayland. X11 forwarding and an X server on the 'local machine' is used to for displaying. Hope that helps.
Ok that means you installed on Windows WSL a docker image of Mageia (where do you have this image from?) and do X11-forwarding? Correct me if i understood your setup wrong. Could it be that the docker image (which is not provided by Mageia) is not properly setup?
I tried to reproduce this problem with a slightly different setup but was not able to. Minimum installation of 64 bit MGA8 with X (IceWM) according https://doc.mageia.org/installer/8/en/content/software.html#minimal-install -> abattis-cantarell-fonts is automatically installed -> removed abattis-cantarell-fonts via "urpme abattis-cantarell-fonts" -> "urpmi emacs" -> emacs opens and displays just fine without any artefacts or squares => maybe the docker image is faulty => there are known issues with x-forwarding on windows not working well with all programs
In reply to comment 4, you are correct. I got the docker image from dockerhub. https://hub.docker.com/_/mageia Where it claims to be maintained by "Mageia Developers". But now I see there isn't a reference to it on mageia.org. So I hope my confusion is understandable. Unfortunately, installing a WSL instance requires a tar-ball of an install, so running the installer is not really an option for me. Does there exist at list of which rpms are included in the minimum install? (Then I will just fix the instance I have running.) About comment 5. Perhaps there is something else missing that gets installed with the base system? I understand if you want to close out this bug as not reproducible.
https://hub.docker.com/_/mageia indicates https://github.com/juanluisbaptiste/docker-brew-mageia/issues should be used to report problems. Assigning accordingly.
CC: (none) => davidwhodginsAssignee: bugsquad => juan.baptiste
Juan, please modify the description to say it's maintained by "A Mageia developer" instead of "Mageia Developers".
Also please remove "Official" from the description.
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30609
Aside from the problem of an unofficial docker image being labeled as official, which will be dealt with elsewhere, there's still the problem of the missing requires. I haven't tested this yet, but to reproduce based on the above info, Use a netinstall iso to install basesystem-minimal and it's required packages. Install emacs, which installs as part of it's requries, libX11, etc. Use an X server on another system connected to the test system via ssh with X forwarding on. abattis-cantarell-fonts is not included in the requires of emacs so is not available. Changing the assignee to Thierry, the registered maintainer of emacs.
Assignee: juan.baptiste => thierry.vignaud