Uhgh, nope. I ran both the update-fonts-dir and xset commands, but
display still complains about helvetica.
It looks like /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 isn't in my font path:
$ xset -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1
xset: warning, no entries deleted from font path.
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 01:13:47AM +0200, Daniel Kobras babbled thus:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 03:42:43PM -0400, Mike Edwards wrote:
> > As a followup to this:
> >
> > $ xlsfonts -ll -fn '-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> > xlsfonts: unable to get info about font
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1"
> > xlsfonts: unable to get info about font
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1"
> > xlsfonts: unable to get info about font
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1"
> > xlsfonts: unable to get info about font
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1"
> > xlsfonts: unable to get info about font
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1"
> > xlsfonts: unable to get info about font
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1"
> > xlsfonts: unable to get info about font
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1"
>
> Trimming my system down to a minimal list of font packages, I was able
> to reproduce the problem. Specifically, it occured as soon as
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 was present in the font path. Once I ran
> 'update-fonts-dir Type1' (as root), the Type1 fonts were found correctly
> again after an 'xset fp rehash'. I still do not understand why this
> command cured the problem, though. The above output indicates that
> XLoadQueryFont() failed on a font returned by XListFonts(), which is not
> supposed to happen. Maybe a cache file went inconsistent for some
> reason? On my system, gsfonts-x11 and xfonts-scalable seem to be the
> most likely culprits. Can you please confirm whether updating fonts.dir
> in the Type1 directory fixed the problem for you? If so, I'll forward
> this issue to the X maintainers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel.
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