After some more searching on the web for similar problems, I figured it out. To get things back to normal, one simply has to

rm -f ~/.fonts.cahe-1

which presumably is not required in any way!?

       Mattia

Mattia Vaccari wrote:
Hi there,

over the last few days I noticed that several applications crash due to missing fonts. Between others

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <20:17> <~> bluefish

** (bluefish:24433): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Verdana 10

** (bluefish:24433): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback font, nothing to do

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <20:21> <~> wxzphoto

** (wxzphoto:24696): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Verdana 10

** (wxzphoto:24696): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback font, nothing to do

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <20:23> <~> gimp-2.0

** (gimp-2.0:25038): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Verdana 10

** (gimp-2.0:25038): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback font, nothing to do

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <17:31> <~/spitzer/goods-cdfs/sel_func/runsex> gqview
GQview 1.3.4
This is a beta release, in active development.
Things may break from version to version.
Want stability? Use a 1.2 or 1.0 version. YOU WERE WARNED!

** (gqview:13799): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Verdana 10

** (gqview:13799): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback font, nothing to do
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and so on. Somewhere on the web I found a linux error report suggesting this error message might have to do with pango and upgrades of other libraries, but recompiling didn't solve the problem.

Any clue anybody?

           Mattia



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