Description of problem: After upgrading from Fedora 8 to 10, xemacs and xfig and various other old X programs fail with error messages like these: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Unable to convert string to FontStruct Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I think it happens when you install Fedora 6, then upgrade to 8, then to 10, something like that. Additional info: Several versions of Fedora relied heavily on xfs, and apparently f10 no longer does. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I'm posting this here so maybe it will help someone else. I was able to fix this particular problem by removing "unix/:7100" from the font path. You can do this temporarily by running the command: xset fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d To remove it permanently, I added a # to comment out this line from /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # FontPath "unix/:7100" I turned off xfs permanently by running chkconfig xfs reset I spent some hours looking through news groups and google results and such and never actually found a solution to this problem. I hope this is the right way to fix it.
Yes, it is. I wonder why this wasn't picked up during the upgrade. Could you also check that when running without any xorg.conf, you won't reproduce this bug as well? Adam, did we do anything about upgrades from xfs-based configuration to non-xfs-ones?
This problem happens to me with no xorg.conf. When I try to run "xset fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d", I get: xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Dierctory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax. I have no idea what this means or how to fix it. This system was upgraded.
(In reply to comment #1) > Could you also check that when running without any xorg.conf, you won't > reproduce this bug as well? I moved my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to another directory and started X. xemacs and xfig work fine, so it seems that the problem goes away on my particular machine without xorg.conf. Incidentally, several different things seem to have gone wrong when I upgraded my three machines from f8 to f10. My laptop exhibited this font problem but not my home desktop -- go figure. I just upgraded my workstation last night and I'll have to get back to you about that once I've fixed some of its other issues. The script to switch from xfs to the catalogue: font system might be working fine and this problem might really originate from a bug in yum or anaconda or rpm that causes something else not to run, etc. and I have no way to figure that part out. But I'm puzzled: Why don't the fonts work through xfs? They certainly used to...
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I haven't seen this in a while. I'm going to assume it's either fixed or irrelevant as of F12. I'll mark it Closed / Current release (is that the right tag?)