Bug#214449: xfonts-base: Seem to be linked to locale
Package: xfonts-base
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #214449
I have managed to resolve this problem on my system. Here's a recount:
I did an upgrade to testing yesterday and got this same problem: No
bitmapped fonts available for emacs, xfontsel, xload, etc. All ttfonts are
available, though, so terminals and mozilla, etc display properly.
After many fruitless hours I suspected it was a locale issue (I've changed
the locale of the system in the past). So I opened Control Center -> Region
and Accessibility -> Country/Region & Language. There it shows
Country: US
Language: <No language>
I changed Country to C/default and English came up in Language box. Since
this change requires restarting KDE to take effect, I logged out and in
again. Indeed the fonts are now available in Emacs. Afterwards I changed
Country back to US/English and it still works.
I cannot say that this is definitely the cause of the font problem: before
trying this, I've tried installing, removing and reconfiguring several
font-related packages, starting and stopping xfs and xfstt, etc, without
logging out of KDE. So there is a chance one of these actions did the
trick.
There is a still a partial problem: the font in emacs appears to be quite
large and ugly. It does not appear to be the same as what I had before.
Huaiyu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux saturn 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii xutils 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System utility programs
-- no debconf information
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