NTop fonts in RRD graphs are Squares.

gsmithe

Tom,

Thanks for this solution. It worked great for me on 2.2.1. I'd like to add that I didn't have to restart the firewall. I just stopped and started ntop, and the display updated fine.

Gary

Bibliophile

When I enter the following command:

pkg install xorg-fonts-7.7

I get the following response:

Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue…
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'xorg-fonts-7.7' have been found in the repositories

Any ideas?

thanks!

jspinuzzi

A newer package has been released.

While searching for the same issue I found that running the following showed the correct version.

pkg search xorg-fonts

I then ran:

pkg install xorg-fonts-7.7_1

Bibliophile

@jspinuzzi:

A newer package has been released.

While searching for the same issue I found that running the following showed the correct version.
pkg search xorg-fonts
I then ran:
pkg install xorg-fonts-7.7_1

Thanks for the tip - the newer fonts have been installed. However, that did not solve the problem. So, I manually created the link as recommended by ESPNSTI:

ln -s /usr/pbi/ntopng-i386/local/etc/fonts/ /usr/local/etc/fonts

…and re-started both ntop, then the entire firewall...with the same results (Squares for text on ntop RRD graph on both Chrome and IE). Any other ideas?

BTW - bandwidthd's graphs all look good - I just prefer nTop's data...

Thanks!

reloded

Did same thing but also no luck. Any other suggestions?

@Bibliophile:

@jspinuzzi:
A newer package has been released.

While searching for the same issue I found that running the following showed the correct version.
pkg search xorg-fonts
I then ran:
pkg install xorg-fonts-7.7_1
Thanks for the tip - the newer fonts have been installed. However, that did not solve the problem. So, I manually created the link as recommended by ESPNSTI:

ln -s /usr/pbi/ntopng-i386/local/etc/fonts/ /usr/local/etc/fonts

…and re-started both ntop, then the entire firewall...with the same results (Squares for text on ntop RRD graph on both Chrome and IE). Any other ideas?

BTW - bandwidthd's graphs all look good - I just prefer nTop's data...

Thanks!

dork.buttons

@luky:

Did same thing but also no luck. Any other suggestions?

I've given up, at least for now, and am trying ntopng. I am hoping for something shiny to show folks in part to help justify some much gruntier hardware for this project. Letting them drive off an unpaved roadbed into those weird boxes - a total nonstarter.

tommyverburgh

Hello,

I have the same problem. Please, someone an idea to fix this font problem when generating the graphs in ntop?

greetz

HooKed

I'm not sure that this will help with your problem.

I have noticed older OS's do not display new fonts correctly.

piercejr

this is STILL a problem with 2.2.6-RELEASE (amd64) built on Mon Dec 21 14:50:08 CST 2015 …

I installed the latest xorg-fonts-7.7_1 and I'm quite hesitant to do that symlink since both directories exist (its -amd64 rather than -386 on my system).

/usr/local/etc/fonts:
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1536 Dec 25 10:31 conf.avail
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Dec 25 10:31 conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5502 Dec 11 17:16 fonts.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5502 Dec 11 17:16 fonts.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7250 Dec 11 17:16 fonts.dtd

/usr/pbi/ntop-amd64/local/etc/fonts:
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1536 Jun 26 2014 conf.avail
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jun 26 2014 conf.d
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5502 Jun 26 2014 fonts.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5502 Jun 26 2014 fonts.conf.default
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7253 Jun 26 2014 fonts.dtd

JohnnySSH

Directly looking at the Makefile of Ntop in FreeBSD @Ports the URW fonts package is marked as a dependency:


LIB_DEPENDS=    libgdbm.so:${PORTSDIR}/databases/gdbm \
                libevent.so:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libevent2
BUILD_DEPENDS=  rrdtool>=1.2:${PORTSDIR}/databases/rrdtool \
                dot:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/graphviz \
                geoiplookup:${PORTSDIR}/net/GeoIP
RUN_DEPENDS:=   ${BUILD_DEPENDS} \
                urwfonts>0:${PORTSDIR}/x11-fonts/urwfonts

this can be installed with: pkg install urwfonts.

I haven't narrowed this down yet 100% but am working on it, since this isn't a fix but getting closer I feel…. (as have just started with PFsense though I know FreeBSD pretty well).

Also under the path:

/usr/pbi/ntop-amd64/local/fonts/conf.d

there is a file called:

30-urw-aliases.conf

whose contents look like this:


 <fontconfig><alias binding="same"><family>Zapf Dingbats</family>
	  <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept></alias> 
	 <alias binding="same"><family>ITC Zapf Dingbats</family>
	  <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept></alias> 
	 <match target="pattern"><test name="family" compare="eq" ignore-blanks="true"><string>Symbol</string></test> 
	  <edit name="family" mode="append" binding="same"><string>Standard Symbols L</string></edit></match></fontconfig>

I think (though I maybe totally wrong) that this might have something to do with the fonts not displaying…. as in a missing symlink or path location to the urw font package??

Still investigating however.....