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Re: Emacs-20.5 refuses to start under X (further information)



On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Andreas Tille wrote:

> I've updated to
> 
> > dpkg --status emacs20
> Package: emacs20
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: standard
> Section: editors
> Installed-Size: 26541
> Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
> Version: 20.5a-2
> 
> It works well under the console but refuses to start under X.
After downgrading to emacs20_20.5a-1.deb (which I left in my apt cache
it was the same, that means the problem was caused not by Emacs but by
the new X packages from the 3.3.6 series.
 
> An `strace emacs` ends with
>
> select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [4])
> --- SIGIO (Ein-/Ausgabe ist möglich) ---
> sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
> read(4, "\1\2\265\0\0\0\0\0\24\0@\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
> writev(4, [{"1\0\20\0\n\0007\0", 8}, {"-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-Normal-*-15-1"..., 55}, {"\0", 1}], 3) = 64
> read(4, 0xbfffe06c, 32)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, NULL

How can I get the missing font found?
Do I have to reconfigure X via xf86config?
 
Kind regards
 
           Andreas.


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