Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font

[Philippe Marzouk <pmarzouk@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:53:42PM +0100, Christian Nybø wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> xfontsel gives the following warnings:
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> 
> xdvi gives the same errors and exits.
> 
> What information can I provide to help others help me out with this?

I had this problem after upgrading libc6, I exited X, stopped gdm, 
restarted the font server, killed processes which might have stayed 
from gnome (oafd, gconf) and restarted gdm and the problem disappeared.

HTH (if this is the same problem you get),
Philippe