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Re: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?



On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:19:28 -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed 
> to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily 
> resolved using aptitude's suggestions.  First it wanted to install an 
> xfree86 package to fix things, but the second alternative was xfs, which 
> I chose.  Was that wrong?

I don't think so, xfs 1:1.0.1-5 works without problems for me as a font
server for Xorg 7.0

> Now I cannot get gnucash to work (mission-critical problem), and both 
> emacs and xemacs give me empty boxes for characters (workaround found).
> 
> ****
> 
> The gnucash problem is critical.  I really *need* it fixed, and soon.
> I would have delayed the entire upgrade had I even *suspected* there 
> would be this kind of trouble.
> 
> gnucash complains:
> 
> parents@lovesong:~$ gnucash
> Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: 
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*

[...]

> parents@lovesong:~$ gnucash --version
> GnuCash 1.8.10
> parents@lovesong:~$ 
> 
> What package contains these fonts?

adobe-helvetica-... font names are aliases for Nimbus Sans fonts from
package "gsfonts". I think that you furthermore need "gsfonts-x11" to
make these postscript type1 fonts available under X. Since you installed
the xfs font server during the upgrade you can check if the fonts are
known under their aliases:

$ fslsfonts -s unix/:7100 | grep 'adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal.*-120'
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-1

Also check if you have the following two FontPath elements in your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf: 

        FontPath        "unix/:7100"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"

I have a different version of GnuCash (1.9.8 on Sid), therefore I cannot
tell you if the above is enough for GnuCash 1.8.10, but it certainly
should not hurt.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian



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