I have a certain software on CentOS 6.4 that gave the following error:
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Serial number of failed
request: 15 Current serial number in output stream: 30
Running strace shows that the error happens just about here:
writev(4, [{"-\2\21\0\4\0\240\0027\0\240\2-adobe-helvetica-bol"..., ...
I thought some fonts were missing from my system, so I went on to insall
all xorg-x11-fonts-* packages on my system. The Adobe fonts should be
included in the xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi package.
I thought the fonts may not be in the fonts path, so I ran xset q. The
fonts seemed to be in the X font path.
Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators: 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Shift Lock: off 04: Group 2: off 05: Mouse Keys: off auto repeat delay:
65535 repeat rate: 0 auto repeating keys: 00feffffdffffbbf fadfffffffdfe5ef
ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell
duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors:
default colormap: 0x50 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path:
/usr/NX/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/NX/share/fonts/base,/usr/NX/share/fonts/base,/usr/NX/share/fonts/base
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0
Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Disabled
Despite all these, the font requried (any font from the Adobe family) seems
not to be reported with xlsfonts, and the application error persists.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.