emergency: font problems causing gv to crash

[p@dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman)]

Hi all,

My PhD dissertation is due in a few weeks and I'm having some kind of
problem with fonts that's preventing me from viewing my thesis.

This is a new computer (my old one died at the *worst* possible moment.
Luckily, I'm *really* good about backing everything up), so it's a fresh
Debian/testing installation and I'm trying to iron out bugs as quickly as
possible so I can get back to writing.

I normally view my thesis using gv, but gv segfaults:

   $ gv dissertation.ps
   Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
   Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
   Segmentation fault (core dumped)

xdvi also fails to run:

   $ xdvi dissertation.dvi
   X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range
        for operation)
     Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
     Value in failed request:  0xe00004
     Serial number of failed request:  27
     Current serial number in output stream:  28


xfontsel also seems to have a problem:

   FreeType: couldn't open face
   /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ds=y:VeraMono.ttf: 1


On the console behind X, this error message is printed:

   FreeType: couldn't open face
   /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ds=y:VeraMono.ttf: 1

But this doesn't look like fatal error to me.  I really need to get writing
ASAP.  Can someone please help?

Thanks,
Peter

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