arious x apps (xterm, xfontsel) don't start due to missing fonts

[walter harms]

does "xterm -fn fixed" work ?

re,
 wh


Am 24.03.2011 22:19, schrieb Shiva Persaud:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm having what appears to be a common problem but not of the solutions I've found on various forums and threads have worked for me.
> 
> I noticed this issue after I configured my system to use the en_US.utf8 locale but it's possible that this issue existed before that change. Note that in debugging I've gone back to using having POSIX as my locale and the problem persists.
> 
> I noticed then when I did a ctrl-right click xterm windows would close. I
> started an xterm from an xterm and ctrl-right clicked on the new xterm and saw the following error message:
> 
> <begin>
> ~(245)$ xterm
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Error: Aborting: no font found
> <end>
> 
> I see the following with trying to launch xfontsel:
> 
> <begin>
> $ xfontsel
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Error: Aborting: no font found
> </end>
> 
> xclock starts but it prints the following:
> 
> <begin>
> $ xclock
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> ^C
> $
> </begin>
> 
> I've found, and tried, the following suggestions with no luck:
> 
> 1. Ensured that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is installed.
> 2. Ensured that the FontPath is set is /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> 
> Other details like which versions of various X components I have installed and  "xset q fp" output can be found in a distro bug opened: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359679. Please note that in Googling around I've found that users on other distros have experienced this issue. I've attached "strace editres" output @ http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=266879.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to address this would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
>  
> 
> 
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