Re: Emacs-20.5 refuses to start under X (further information)
Seems like I had a similar problem once. Think I had to run
mkfontdir on the font directories.
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
: 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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