Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: > >> I tried launching xemacs on a remote build 99 display and it dumps core >> with the message >> >> Warning: Cannot convert string >> "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct >> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font >> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font >> >> Everything was OK with build 96. >> >> Clues? >> > > Check your install log - depending on the install method, you may see a > lot of class action/postinstall script errors from font packages failing > to run mkfontdir so that the X server can translate the 14-dashed XLFD > font names like the above to the files in that package. > > I never can remember where LU keeps its logs, but I'm sure the upgrade was clean (no failed packages reported).
> If so, you can either manually run mkfontdir, or just pkgrm the packages > and re-pkgadd them from the install media. (The scripts failed because > some of the library dependencies were not met in the miniroot/archives > used during install, but they're present on the installed system, so > should work fine when you pkgadd on the running system.) > > Which packages? mkfontdir doesn't appear to have a man page. Ian.
