I had a similar problem. It turned out that not all of my FontPath statements in XF86Config were valid. I don't know why one of them suddenly became invalid, but deleting the offending line fixed things for me.
--Tom Joseph On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 14:37, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > xlsfonts and several other apps show correctly my msttfcorefonts font: > -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 > Sadly no app can actually use it. gtkfontsel e.g. says "The selected font > is not available". xlsfont and some apps say: "Warning: Missing charsets > in String to FontSet conversation" and "Warning: Unable to load any > usable fontset". > > How to get my ttf back? > > I tried to completely reinstall all X11 and font packages and even upgraded > from sid to the 4.2beta debs without any changes. > I have of course loaded the "freetype" and no "xtt" module. I'm using the > nvidia display driver for my Geforce2 if that matters. Already upgraded > this thing, too. But it worked long time before. > > The failure started at about 1 week ago after I restarted my computers > after week or so uptime and several apt-get -u upgrades... > > A hint could be that I find nothing about freetype in xdpyinfo although it > loads fine according to /var/log/XFree86.0.log. For which string should I > look in xdpyinfo? > > bye, > > -christian- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Joseph Archive Maintainer Wuarchive - http://wuarchive.wustl.edu
