Hi; The following applies to a pretty much standard Debian 2.4 installation:
I have a machine here which has been giving me grief with the fonts. It started when I added some font packages (deb). After I had added the fonts I found that many Gnome packages could not access fonts that where on the system previously and had not been disturbed. For instance Dia could not find any of the fonts it required and dropped back to "Fixed". This is despite the fact that xfontsel could find the fonts that Dia claimed where missing. There where some non Gnome apps which also showed problems. For instance xpdf failed for the lake of fonts. I fixed this problem by forcing a removal and reinstallation of gsfonts and gsfonts-x11. This immediately fixed the problems with Dia and the other Gnome and non Gnome apps. However, during the reinstallation of the gsfonts, the installation scripts failed. This was caused by gnome-font-install SEGV ing. Investigating this I found that it was failing on the file /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/p052004l.pfb. Moving this file, and its afm, out of the way allowed the scripts to run to completion. The situation is that now the font system appears to be working OK. However I find it hard to believe that there is a problem in the distribution with p052004l (otherwise this problem would have been reported long before now). I suspect that I have not fixed the real problem and it is still lurking down below and will eventually cause problems in the future. I need to button this system up if possible. I'm wondering if anybody else has had similar problems with fonts on this Debian release? If so can you offer advice? Thanks Cheers -- Peter F Bradshaw, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ 75431157 (exadios). http://www.exadios.com PGP public key at http://www.exadios.com/public_key.html "I love truth, and the way the government still uses it occasionally to keep us guessing. " - Sam Kekovich.
