hi I use sid and Gnome ; I upgraded my box (after 3 weeks in which I did not have time to) ; now I have serious problems with fonts.
Symptoms: some programs fail to find and use the fonts ,and are then almost unusable ; including 'emacs-snapshot-gtk' 'display' 'xmms' ('xmms' is missing fonts for the menus but not for the main display); 'gpr' 'gnomecal' . Note that, in my desktop, I set: $ env | grep LANG LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 note also that other programs are fine, for example, all GTK2 applications. I encounter some peculiar behaviour, here is a listing $ gnomecal (never starts) $ LANG='' gnomecal (prints this forever) The font "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-p-*-*-*,-cronyx-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-koi8-r,-*-*-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1987-0,*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") $ gpr (starts, no text anywhere) $ LANG='' gpr (starts , text is blocky but fine) $ display display: unable to load font `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'. display: unable to load font `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'. (fails to start) $ xlsfonts -fn -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1 $ LANG='' display -font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1 display: unable to load font `-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1'. display: unable to load font `-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1'. (fails to start as well!) $ xcalc -font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset (starts, fonts look funny) Does anyone have an helping clue ? a. -- Andrea Mennucc "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)
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