Font problems (ISO8859) after upgrading
I am using Debian Sarge, and after an upgrade some days ago (monday
29.), I have got a font problem. When starting Emacs, it comes up with
only empty rectangles, instead of normal characters. I also get the
error message:
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Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
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I have been able to find a partial workaround for Emacs by specifying
fonts in .Xresources. But I have similar problems with
* Adobes Acroread (crashes immediately with error message),
* gv (segfaults with error message),
* xpdf (starts, but emits loads of error messages)
* xdvi (terminates abnormally with error message)
The upgrade was done using "apt-get update" followed by aptitude.
The aptitude log shows the packages liste under were upgraded (only
relevant packages shown).
Does anyone have a solution/explanation for this behaviour?
With kind regards
Asbjørn Sæbø
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[UPGRADE] fontconfig 2.2.1-1 -> 2.2.1-3
[UPGRADE] gdm-themes 0.1 -> 0.2
[UPGRADE] lbxproxy 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] libdb4.0 4.0.14-1.2 -> 4.0.14-1.3
[UPGRADE] libdps1 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] libfontconfig1 2.2.1-1 -> 2.2.1-3
[UPGRADE] libgsf-1 1.8.1-4 -> 1.8.2-1
[UPGRADE] libgsf-gnome-1 1.8.1-4 -> 1.8.2-1
[UPGRADE] libltdl3 1.4.3-10 -> 1.5-2
[UPGRADE] x-window-system 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] x-window-system-core 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xbase-clients 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xdm 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xfonts-100dpi 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xfonts-75dpi 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xfonts-base 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xfonts-scalable 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xfree86-common 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xfs 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xfwp 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xlibmesa3-gl 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xlibmesa3-glu 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xlibs 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xnest 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xprt 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xserver-common 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xspecs 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xterm 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
[UPGRADE] xutils 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11
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