[Gllug] Fonts problem in Debian

[lesleyb at herlug.org.uk]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:51:42AM +0100, Ben Whyte wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a couple of odd font problems at the moment and wonder if anyone 
> could help.
> 
> When I run xfontsel I get the following
> 
>  xfontsel
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Error: Aborting: no font found
> 
> and when I run Eterm I get this
> 
>  Eterm
> Eterm:  Error:  Unable to load font 
> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1".  Falling 
> back on "k14"
> Eterm:  FATAL:  Couldn't load the fallback font either.  Giving up.
> 
> If its any help to anyone I am running Debian unstable.
> 
I haven't got unstable installed atm but xfontsel works fine in stable (lenny).
Unstable is unstable. It will break.
Always worth checking http://wiki.debian.org/Status/Stable
When a stable release goes out, unstable can become very unstable and there was a stable point release (5.0.2) at the weekend.

You could check bug reports.

Regards

L.

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