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? 
> 
> 
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