On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 18:25:54 -0400, Jay Zach wrote: > > About a week ago, eboard and xboard both stopped running for me with font > errors. I'm running Unstable with Xorg 7.0. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 13 ~ :) eboard > <BareBoard::BareBoard> can't load font. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 13 ~ :( xboard > xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > > ===== > Files section from xorg.conf > ===== > > Section "Files" > > # local font server > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these > FontPath "unix/:7100" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" > EndSection
Did you check if the font server is actually available at port 7100? Are the "helvetica-..." font names known? (They are aliases for the Nimbus Sans fonts; you need the packages package "gsfonts" and "gsfonts-x11".) About two weeks ago someone had a similar issue with GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00112.html -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]