X Fonts problems (Helvetica and others show up blank)

[Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

Ever since, uh, a while ago, I've been having a problem with some of my fonts.
What's strange is that it's not consistent.

Helvetica and Courier shows up blank. That is it's just an empty area that I
can select and copy and paste into another program. The height of the blank
lines is only a few pixels and the background colour underneath shows through.
I don't know what would cause this.

I would associate it with the Adobe fonts except that "symbol" works fine and
MS Sans Serif and MS Serif -- which I've never heard of before -- behave
similar to Helvetica and Courier.

In what package do Helvetica and Courier live? Why would my system think the
fonts are there but not actually be able to display them?

My fontpath is currently:

	FontPath	"unix/:7101"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/"

xfstt is running

root       399  0.0  0.1  2688 1124 ?        S    Oct13   0:00 /usr/bin/xfstt --port 7101 --daemon --user nobody --notcp
nobody     514  0.0  0.1  7304 1140 ?        S    Oct13   0:00 /usr/bin/xfstt --port 7101 --daemon --user nobody --notcp
nobody     529  0.0  0.1  7580 1456 ?        S    Oct13   0:00 /usr/bin/xfstt --port 7101 --daemon --user nobody --notcp

I assume I'm missing some path in the font path, however I cannot find any
files that say "helvetica" or anything like that in their name. Perhaps I'm
missing a package or something too?

-- 
greg