Hi folks, In a fit of madness, I went on a spree of reconfiguration and reinstallation of font-related packages. Now, I've killed ghostscript. Here's the error I get, both on firefox and enscript-created postscript files:
Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: F0 Times-Roman Font Times-Roman 343555 Times-Roman --nostringval-- Courier NimbusMonL-Regu (NimbusMonL-Regu) NimbusMonL-Regu (NimbusMonL-Regu) NimbusMonL-Regu Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 3 %oparray_pop 3 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 6 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 5 -1 1 --nostringval-- %for_neg_int_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1053/1417(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:71/200(L)-- --dict:17/17(ro)(G)-- --dict:1053/1417(ro)(G)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Here's a transcript of the commands leading up to this calamity: dpkg-reconfigure libfreetype6 dpkg-reconfigure libxft1 dpkg-reconfigure libxft2 dpkg-reconfigure libfontconfig1 dpkg-reconfigure defoma defoma-reconfigure freetype-config dselect # updated, but didn't change any packages dpkg-reconfigure libfreetype6 dpkg --purge --force-depends libfreetype6 apt-get install libfreetype6 dpkg --purge --force-depends libxft2 apt-get install libxft2 dpkg --purge --force-depends libxft1 apt-get install libxft1 dpkg --purge --force-depends defoma apt-get install defoma dpkg --purge --force-depends fontconfig apt-get install fontconfig I realize (the next morning) that ghostscript is hosed. My unsuccessful attempts to fix the situation: dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig dpkg-reconfigure gs-common dpkg-reconfigure gs-esp dpkg-reconfigure gsfonts # complained "W: type1: Category not found." dpkg --purge --force-depends gsfonts # didn't work, prerm script failed apt-get install --reinstall gsfonts dpkg-reconfigure gsfonts-x11 apt-get install --reinstall gsfonts-x11 freetype-config defoma-reconfigure dpkg-reconfigure psfontmgr dpkg-reconfigure type1inst dpkg-reconfigure x-ttcidfont-conf dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-scalable dpkg-reconfigure gs dpkg-reconfigure defoma psfontmgr dpkg-reconfigure gsfonts # did not complain All packages are current sarge as of a few days ago. Help! Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]