Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font

[chr@nybo.no (Christian Nybø)]

Philippe Marzouk <pmarzouk@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> 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.

I followed those steps, but it does not solve the problem.  Thanks anyway.

There are different fonts available on a debian system, such as
100dpi, speedo, truetype.  How can I determine which type of font is
at fault here?  

-- 
chr