rrdtool 1.3 (and 1.2.28) font/text problem

matthys · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

After my Gentoo box did an upgrade of rrdtool to version 1.2.28 all fonts within the graphs are not correctly lined out. I mean ... that tabs are not fixed. I set the font to /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuMonoSans.ttf (under Settings, Visual), which is a mono-space font. So text is lined out correctly .. but tabs or spaces NOT.

I also did an upgrade to rrdtool version 1.3.4 with the same results.

Anyone any clue?

Cheers,
Matthijs

khufure

thenextdon13 · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 1

Hello-
I had a very similar problem, and after searching the forums and other i think i've found the solution.

It appears that the handoff from Cacti into RRDTool does not honor the 'default font path' listed on settings->paths for graphs in rrdtool >= 1.2.8.

This means you need to put the same path into the settings->visual->
Default RRDtool 1.2 Fonts paths areas.

Its interesting that the seettings->paths used to work and now does not, with only an upgrade to rrdtool.

HTH

matthys · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

Yep .. did downgrade to 1.2.27 and all is fine again. But I had to mask rrdtool as the latest version for Gentoo is now 1.2.28!

AND AGAIN ... setting a font DIDN'T solve the tabs/spaces issue I had. And YES, I had to set a font to get things correct for the text (none at all with 1.2.28 ) but for the tabs/spaces it was not lined out correctly. No clue why .. but hope it will be fixed in the future.

Cheers,
Matthijs

nightwisher · Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Bosnia

Same problem in gentoo and downgrade rrdtool to 1.2.27 !

pva · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 26

Please, check rrdtool-1.2.28-r1 and if there any problems with it report at bugs.gentoo.org. Missing graphs problem was fixed in bug 254331:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245331

blaforest · Joined: 05 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

At the risk of sounding like a total idiot, could someone please tell me how to apply the above patch? Still very new to Linux so I'm not sure how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

pva · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 26

If you are using Gentoo the only thing you need to do is to unmask rrdtool-1.2.28-r1. For this just do:

# echo "=net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2.28-r1" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge -1va =net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2.28-r1

That's all. Don't forgive to read Gentoo handbook about mixing branches.

If you are not using Gentoo then unpack sources
$ tar -zxvf /vt/portage/distfiles/rrdtool-1.2.28.tar.gz
download patch
$ wget 'http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=170717' -O rrdtool-revert-font-fix.patch
and patch
$ cd rrdtool-1.2.28
$ patch -i ../rrdtool-revert-font-fix.patch -p0

If something unclear read man patch and search google.

khufure · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

MarianoL · Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

I have same problem with RRDTool 1.3.4 but in Fedora 8. I tried using DejaVuSansMono, LucidaConsole, Consola and VeraMono TTF fonts, but always happens the same.
There's a fix for monospaced fonts issue in graphs with RRDTool >= 1.2.28, without to do a downgrade?
Thanks in advance

Regards

khufure · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

steevel · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Chair

gandalf · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject:

Tobi Oetiker is working on it. He told us, that next week a new version is likely to appear.
Reinhard