I killed ghostscript -- "Error: /invalidfont in findfont"

[Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net>]

Hi folks,

In a fit of madness, I went on a spree of reconfiguration and
reinstallation of font-related packages. Now, I've killed ghostscript.
Here's the error I get, both on firefox and enscript-created postscript
files:

Error: /invalidfont in findfont
Operand stack:
   F0   Times-Roman   Font   Times-Roman   343555   Times-Roman   --nostringval--   Courier   NimbusMonL-Regu   (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu   (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   3   %oparray_pop   3   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   6   4   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   5   -1   1   --nostringval--   %for_neg_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1053/1417(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:71/200(L)--   --dict:17/17(ro)(G)--   --dict:1053/1417(ro)(G)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Here's a transcript of the commands leading up to this calamity:

dpkg-reconfigure libfreetype6
dpkg-reconfigure libxft1
dpkg-reconfigure libxft2
dpkg-reconfigure libfontconfig1
dpkg-reconfigure defoma
defoma-reconfigure
freetype-config
dselect  # updated, but didn't change any packages
dpkg-reconfigure libfreetype6
dpkg --purge --force-depends libfreetype6
apt-get install libfreetype6
dpkg --purge --force-depends libxft2
apt-get install libxft2
dpkg --purge --force-depends libxft1
apt-get install libxft1
dpkg --purge --force-depends defoma
apt-get install defoma
dpkg --purge --force-depends fontconfig
apt-get install fontconfig

I realize (the next morning) that ghostscript is hosed. My
unsuccessful attempts to fix the situation:

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
dpkg-reconfigure gs-common
dpkg-reconfigure gs-esp
dpkg-reconfigure gsfonts  # complained "W: type1: Category not found."
dpkg --purge --force-depends gsfonts  # didn't work, prerm script failed
apt-get install --reinstall gsfonts
dpkg-reconfigure gsfonts-x11
apt-get install --reinstall gsfonts-x11 freetype-config
defoma-reconfigure
dpkg-reconfigure psfontmgr
dpkg-reconfigure type1inst
dpkg-reconfigure x-ttcidfont-conf
dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-scalable
dpkg-reconfigure gs
dpkg-reconfigure defoma
psfontmgr
dpkg-reconfigure gsfonts  # did not complain

All packages are current sarge as of a few days ago.

Help!

Reid