Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter, Kurt, Brian, > > Here is a belated comment from an R user on amd64 experiencing font problems > as described in an earlier bug report by Ryan, and a suggested way to fix the > issue. > > The full (older) discussion of the problem is at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309012 > and Peter had chimed in once or twice. > > I can't really judge how pervasive the issue is, and if something out to be > done about it at the R level, but I thought I should at least give you the > heads up. My thanks to Andreas for the follow-up and the tip. > > Ryan: Is there something you folks at Berkeley observed? > > Dirk
Hmmm, if "xset fp default" fixes things, it should be informative to know what "xset q" has to say about the font path before and after that command. Presumably it gets changed... If the X server normally points to a font server and the default to a font directory, and the font server is misconfigured, then it would explain things, but that is pure conjecture at this stage. > On 7 October 2006 at 15:26, Andreas J Guelzow wrote: > | We are experiencing a similar issue and may have some light to shed on > | the issue (especially for others that may experience it to). > | > | We are running ltsp thin-clients connecting via xdmcp to a debian > | "unstable" amd64 machine. We occasionally got the same error. > | > | It turned out that the error occurs until some application does > | something along the lines of: > | xset fp default > | > | That command itself fixed the problem. Since we don't seem to do > | anything strange with the fontpath I don't know why this command makes a > | dfference but it fixed the problem. (So we inserted it into the R shell > | script.) > | > | Andreas > | -- > | Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow > | Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences > | Concordia University College of Alberta > | > | > > -- > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. > -- Thomas A. Edison > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907
