SOLVED: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; fonts needed ocnfiguring

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 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'

Didn't have these: But thy didn't match gnucash's font pattern.

> -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

Did have these:

> -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: 
> 

Did't have this one:  Added it in by editing the file.
>         FontPath        "unix/:7100"

Did have this one:
>         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.

Now it works.  So does emacs.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
>           Florian
> 

Thanks.