Re: Emacs-20.5 refuses to start under X (further information)
Does "xfontsel" find and display these fonts correctly?
Possibly problem with font directory settings in XF86Config?
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
: Hello,
: I have a new idea about the reason of my Emacs-Problem which might
: be a problem with Fonts. I have installed the packages
: libxfont-xtt install
: xfs-xtt install
: xfstt install
: which was suggested to beautify Netscape Navigator.
: Now I detected the second program which doesn't start and strace
: ends with a font problem. Here I repeat the Emcs end.
: ~> strace emacs
: 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
: Also the dictionary Browser ding, which is TCL/TK based refuses to start.
: ~> strace ding
: read(4, "\1\372\36\0\0\0\0\0\243\243\243\243\243\243\0\0\243\243"..., 32) = 32
: writev(4, [{"1\0\v\0\20\'$\0", 8}, {"-*-Helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"..., 36}], 2) = 44
: read(4, 0xbfffe19c, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
: select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, NULL
: In both cases are missing fonts the reason. Could someone please give me
: a hint how to catch the problem. Which package could be responsible?
: What information do you need to help me out here?
: Kind regards
: Andreas.
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