My fonts are clobbered; gnucash won't run

[Matthew Vanecek]

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Not sure if anyone helped you on this, but it's not really a GnuCash
issue.  You  X applications are looking for fonts, but cannot find them
because you commented out that line in your XF86Config file.  Now you
applications that relied on X for font info cannot get that font info.

A key question is, what has changed on the system in the last week or
so.  Did you install new software?  Have you deleted any files?  Another
possibility is that the font server (xfs) was not running--it
occasionally crashes.  On my RedHat machine, if that happens, I
generally try to run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart", to get xfs back up
and running.  You may want to try that (if a reboot hasn't fixed things
up for you since you posted...)

ciao

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 08:04, Laura Conrad wrote:
> Something on my Mandrake 8.2 system went berserk a week or so ago, and
> clobbered some fonts.  The first I knew about it was when I tried to
> get into X and couldn't because it couldn't find "fixed".  I worked
> around that by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and commenting out the
> line:
>         FontPath   "unix/:-1"
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> Now all the programs I run except for gnucash are happy, although they
> give me error messages on startup like:
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> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*=
-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
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> (from gv).
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> Gnucash (gnucash-1.6.7-1mdk), however, is saying a bunch of things like:
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> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
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> Gdk-WARNING **:     ISO8859-1
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> and then saying:
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> ** ERROR **: file gnucash-style.c: line 783 (gnucash_style_set_register_f=
ont_name): assertion failed: (gnucash_register_font !=3D NULL)
> aborting...
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> So there's no way I can find to run it at all.  And this is the busy
> time of year for the organization I'm treasurer of.
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> I will eventually get my system fixed, but I was hoping to put that
> off until Mandrake 8.3 came out.=20=20
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> Is there a workaround for this problem?  I tried putting:
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> gnucash*font:  -etl-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-240-*-*-*-*-*-*
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> into .Xdefaults and it didn't help.
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> Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
> (617) 661-8097	fax: (801) 365-6574=20
> 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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