Hi Meik, you could also try to unregister the fonts manually, as suggested by Steve previously:
defoma-font unregister type1 /usr/share/fonts/type1/linux-libertine/LinLibertineU-Re-2.2.5RO.pfb Ionut On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 18:18 +0200, Meik Hellmund wrote: > I just stumbled over this bug with a new installation of Sid: > grace6 generates symlinks to non-existent fonts and then fails > to start. In my case, it is > > /usr/share/grace6/fonts/type1/LinLibertineU-Re-2.2.5RO.pfb > -> /usr/share/fonts/type1/linux-libertine/LinLibertineU-Re-2.2.5RO.pfb > > I purged grace6, linux-libertine, ran > /usr/sbin/defoma-reconfigure, reinstalled linux-libertine, > ran defoma-reconfigure, reinstalled grace6 - and this broken symlink is > there again! > > So, ok, this is perhaps a defoma problem or a problem of some fonts package. > (Any hints welcome!) > But no other application I know responds in this way to a missing font > (especially, a font it will presumably never use). > > These symlinks to fonts in /usr/share/grace6/fonts/type1/ > - is this really a good idea? What happens when I install/remove/update > fonts *after* installing grace6? > > -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999