Using the modular X packages, putting /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled in the font paths causes things to fail. Dropping the :unscaled works.
*** Bug 173063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Filed upstream as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5047
Due to a define never getting set... mharris fixed it
Fixed in Red Hat libXfont-0.99.2-3 and later.
xfs 0.99.2-2 updated to require the new libXfont or greater
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-0.99.2-4 also fixed.