Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xfonts-scalable

This bug appears to be already known, but I cannot find a bug report for
it.

Existing discussion is at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=313994 .

I was bitten both by bug #63408 (which is mentioned in the above thread,
and which I fixed) and also by their "empty fonts.dir" problem.
aptitude reinstall on both x-ttcidfont-conf and ttf-bitstream-vera had
no visible effect for me - "xlsfonts | grep vera" found no lines.

Using their proposed fix:

   cd /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
   sudo cp fonts.scale fonts.dir

and restarting X (log out and back in) solved the problem entirely.

Prior to this, fonts.dir existed but was only two bytes long.  I think
the first was the (ASCII) digit zero; the second was a newline.  (I was
looking at it through hd, and 0x30 0x0A rings a bell.  (Ok, ok, that's
0x07, I know :-))

Anyway, this seems to be a simple matter to fix, and as no-one else
(appears to have) submitted it, here it is.

PS Apologies if this is the wrong package to report the bug against;
dpkg -S  tells me that /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/fonts.dir is from
xfonts-scalable.

** Affects: xfonts-scalable (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Empty fonts.dir file stops fonts being found
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86704

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