Re: Fatal error (11); Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font

Fred> Perhaps you could add a "--describe-installation" Fred> command-line option. xemacs -batch -f describe-installation `xemacs -nw' probably also will work, on the console or in a *Term. Fred> nooj＠SR-71:~/xscreensaver-4.14$ xemacs hacks/newlisa.c Fred> Warning: Cannot convert string \ Fred> "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" \ Fred> to type FontStruct Fred> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Fred> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font XEmacs is saying it found no usable fonts on your system. I have to suspect something in the postinst for mplayer-fonts. This would also explain an mplayer lockup, as X programs do not generally respond well to lack of fonts. In short, a problem on your system. If you can start an xterm, then maybe it's something to do with XEmacs, but I sorta doubt it. (XEmacs probably could respond to this more gracefully, but historically if you got your system into a state where this message occurred you were in really big trouble that had nothing to do with XEmacs.) What fontpath does `xset q' display? Does xlsfonts -fn '-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' give any output? (It should give scores or hundreds of lines, but I'm only interested in the difference between "zero" and "more than zero") If it does, try xfontsel -pattern '-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' and see if you can get any of them to display. I bet xfontsel also locks. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.