emacs & xfontsel: "Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font"

Adam Funk a24061 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 9 12:31:48 UTC 2006


I just upgraded from dapper to edgy and now when I run emacs as an X
application (i.e. not in the console or xterm) I see only boxes.  When
I run it from (but not in) xterm I get the following errors, and
something similar from xfontsel:

/home/adam $ emacs
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font

/home/adam $ 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


I've commented out my old emacs.font line in .Xdefaults and restarted
gdm, and I still have this problem.  I would appreciate any
suggestions for fixing it.

Thanks,
Adam





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