fails to display text in graphs

[jepler]

Binary package hint: awffull

System information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
$ apt-cache policy awffull libgd2-noxpm ttf-bitstream-vera | egrep '^[a-z]|Installed'
awffull:
  Installed: 3.8.1beta3-1
libgd2-noxpm:
  Installed: 2.0.35.dfsg-3ubuntu2
ttf-bitstream-vera:
  Installed: 1.10-7

awffull fails to display text in the graphs it produces.

How to reproduce:

In the shell, execute the following command (all on one line and take care to copy single and double quotes exactly as shown):
    echo '1.1.1.1 - - [31/Dec/2008:00:00:00 -0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 200 "-" ""' | awffull -c /etc/awffull/awffull.conf -o /tmp -
then view the image /tmp/usage.png (this command runs the default awffull configuration with one line of log)

Expected behavior:
The image contains text that labels the various parts of the graph

Actual behavior:
The image does not contain any text

strace shows that awffull searches many locations for Vera.ttf and VeraBd.ttf, but doesn't find it.

The text will appear if you create a symlink to the bitstream fonts: /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera -> truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/ -- you may have to remove files created in /tmp by an earlier run of awffull before it will regenerate usage.png.

[jepler (jepler)]

Partial output of 'strace awffull':

access("/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/share/fonts/TrueType//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/share/fonts/truetype//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1//usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

[Steve McInerney (spm)]

Hmmm. 3.8.1beta3 is a tad old. We're up to 3.10.2 now. ie There's been about 8 beta and production releases since then.

Shrug - is no matter. The problem is twofold:

1. The dependency is (apparently) against libgd2-noxpm - which won't work. You need libgd2-xpm. ie the one with fontconfig support. Would be delighted to be proven wrong!

2. I think it was in the 3.8.x series, but the fallback font used can be overridden (from the Fedora or OpenSuse - I forget which - default) in the ./configure.
./configure --with-font-default=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf --with-font-label=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf

or create symlinks to achieve the same result. Perhaps ironically, these options were put in for other distro's to use. :-)

You can also use --disable-ttf via ./configure to use the GD bitmap fonts - a-la webalizer.

HTH?
Cheers!
- Steve

[fehlermann (fehlermann)]

The original problem occurrs on a current 12.04 LTS with awffull 3.8.2-2.
After an 'apt-get install libgd2-xpm' awffull properly added text to the graphs when I ran it again (no other changes necessary for me).

So I guess if someone fix the wrong dependency (after 4 years ;)) the issue would be resolved.

I'd appreciate this as it took me quite some time to figure out what's wrong because I was just switching from awstats to awffull - so I first thought it was a feature, not a bug ;-)

Kind Regards

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tehnick (tehnick)]

Package awffull already depends on package libgd2-xpm, see:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/awffull