> I find it strange, if I read it correctly, that it first succeeds > to replace the -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 font > (with -*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1) twice but fails the > third time…
I think the output is still truncated on that third attempt. It should end with either a line saying "substituted" or saying "unable to find any alternatives". If you run with -no-capture-stderr that should stop the truncations, hopefully. However, I thought you said that things were working ok with the self-compiled version, and it was the package-installed version where the fonts were blank? Do these commands return usable fonts? These are the fallback font patterns that it tried as a last resort, since your system has *none* of the other standard X11 fonts installed: xlsfonts -fn "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1" xlsfonts -fn "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1" Maybe test with "xterm -font ...." -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/
