After upgrading my Sarge installation yesterday, I got font problems. As far as I remember, the procedure used was to run "apt-get update", followed by aptitude.
After the next reboot, Emacs came up showing only empty rectanbles instead of characters, and complained about font problems. -------------------------------- Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font ----------------------------------- Acrobat reader behaves similarly, it starts up (the splash screen can be seen) and dies immediately, complaining over font problems: --------------------------------- bash-2.05b$ acroread Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontList Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontList Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontList Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontList Aborted ---------------------------------------- This also happens for gv: ------------------------------- bash-2.05b$ gv Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Segmentation fault ------------------------------- The packages upgrade were (taken from /var/log/aptitude): Aptitude 0.2.11.1: log report Mon Sep 29 20:36:27 2003 IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail due to dpkg problems may not be completed. Will install 53 packages, and remove 3 packages. 6387712 bytes of disk space will be used =============================================================================== [REMOVE, NOT USED] plib1.5 [REMOVE, NOT USED] xlibmesa3 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] plib1c102 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] tux-aqfh-data [REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] plib1 [UPGRADE] balsa 2.0.12-1 -> 2.0.14-1 [UPGRADE] debian-reference-common 1.06-3 -> 1.06-7 [UPGRADE] debian-reference-en 1.06-3 -> 1.06-7 [UPGRADE] dictionaries-common 0.10.3 -> 0.15.3 [UPGRADE] doc-linux-html 2003.07-1 -> 2003.09-1 [UPGRADE] doc-linux-text 2003.07-1 -> 2003.09-1 [UPGRADE] fontconfig 2.2.1-1 -> 2.2.1-3 [UPGRADE] gdm-themes 0.1 -> 0.2 [UPGRADE] lbxproxy 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] libdb4.0 4.0.14-1.2 -> 4.0.14-1.3 [UPGRADE] libdps1 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] libfontconfig1 2.2.1-1 -> 2.2.1-3 [UPGRADE] libgsf-1 1.8.1-4 -> 1.8.2-1 [UPGRADE] libgsf-gnome-1 1.8.1-4 -> 1.8.2-1 [UPGRADE] libhtml-tree-perl 3.17-1 -> 3.18-1 [UPGRADE] libltdl3 1.4.3-10 -> 1.5-2 [UPGRADE] libnet-perl 1:1.16-1 -> 1:1.16-2 [UPGRADE] libxaw6 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] libxaw7 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] procps 1:3.1.9-1 -> 1:3.1.12-1 [UPGRADE] proxymngr 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] quick-reference-en 1.06-3 -> 1.06-7 [UPGRADE] tasksel 1.25 -> 1.34 [UPGRADE] tux-aqfh 1.0.13-6 -> 1.0.14-5 [UPGRADE] tuxkart 0.2.0-2 -> 0.2.0-3 [UPGRADE] tuxkart-data 0.2.0-2 -> 0.2.0-3 [UPGRADE] twm 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] x-window-system 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] x-window-system-core 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xbase-clients 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xdm 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xfonts-100dpi 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xfonts-75dpi 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xfonts-base 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xfonts-scalable 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xfree86-common 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xfs 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xfwp 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xlibmesa3-gl 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xlibmesa3-glu 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xlibs 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xnest 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xprt 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xserver-common 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xspecs 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xterm 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xutils 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] xvfb 4.2.1-6 -> 4.2.1-11 [UPGRADE] zlib1g 1:1.1.4-14 -> 1:1.1.4-15 [UPGRADE] zlib1g-dev 1:1.1.4-14 -> 1:1.1.4-15 =============================================================================== Log complete. With kind regards Asbjørn Sæbø -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
