git gui: assertion "font != NULL" failed

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 17:09 +0000, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
> A few days ago, I ran Setup to update my currently installed package, including my git packages.  Since then, whenever I run git gui, I get the following error:
> 
> $ git gui
> assertion "font != NULL" failed: file "/usr/src/ports/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.1-3.x86_64/src/fontconfig-2.11.1/src/fcmatch.c", line 453, function: FcFontRenderPrepare
> error: git-gui died of signal 6
> 
> cygcheck and xwin logs attached

You don't have any Fontconfig-controlled fonts installed on your system.
On mine, the default seems to be dejavu-fonts, so try installing that,
although xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 might work as well.

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Yaakov



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