rrdtool 1.3 (and 1.2.28) font/text problem

matthys · Post by **matthys** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:07 pm

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 · Post by **khufure** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:33 pm

matthys wrote: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

1.3.x had this behavior for me. 1.2.27 does not. I didn't try 1.2.28 but here's the changelog:
https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd- ... 14478.html

Can you downgrade to 1.2.27?

thenextdon13 · Post by **thenextdon13** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:32 am

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 · Post by **matthys** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:55 pm

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 · Post by **nightwisher** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:45 am

Same problem in gentoo and downgrade rrdtool to 1.2.27 !

pva · Post by **pva** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:37 pm

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 · Post by **blaforest** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:54 pm

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 · Post by **pva** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:17 am

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 · Post by **khufure** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:01 pm

pva wrote:$ patch -i ../rrdtool-revert-font-fix.patch -p0

Ahh... there it is! Hopefully this is included in the latest packages from the distros by default soon.

MarianoL · Post by **MarianoL** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:26 am

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 · Post by **khufure** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:32 pm

MarianoL wrote: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?

When I tried 1.3.x myself, I found it got a lot of segfaults in Apache. 1.3 is not supported in cacti. So I think you should downgrade. 1.2.27/28(with patch) is approximately equivalent in performance.

steevel · Post by **steevel** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:25 am

thenextdon13 wrote:Hello-
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.

I can second that this actually fixes the problem, without either downgrading or patching the rrdtool.
I added font paths to all "* Font File" options under Settings -> Visual -> Default RRDtool 1.2 Fonts

sl.

Post by **gandalf** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 1:31 pm

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

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