Abiword font problem

[Nathan Weston <nweston@hamilton.edu>]

I am running debian unstable, and can't seem to get abiword to work. It 
complains that it can't find it's fonts -- specifically, Times New Roman. I 
checked the shell script that runs abiword, and it adds the abiword font 
directory to the fontpath with 'xset +fp $ABISUITE_FONT_HOME'. I tried 
running this myself and got the following output:

$ xset fp+ /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/
X Error of failed request:  86
  Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
  Serial number of failed request:  8
  Current serial number in output stream:  10

Manually adding the directory to the catalogue in /etc/X11/fs-xtt/config 
doesn't seem to help either.

Any suggestions?

Nathan