gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?
Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily resolved using aptitude's suggestions. First it wanted to install an xfree86 package to fix things, but the second alternative was xfs, which I chose. Was that wrong? Now I cannot get gnucash to work (mission-critical problem), and both emacs and xemacs give me empty boxes for characters (workaround found). The gnucash problem is critical. I really *need* it fixed, and soon. I would have delayed the entire upgrade had I even *suspected* there would be this kind of trouble. gnucash complains: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash --version GnuCash 1.8.10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ What package contains these fonts? emacs has a workaround; I can start it by DISPLAY=; emacs and it gives me a working text-mode emacs. What package is missing? Possibly relevant message copied down from screen in bad handwriting during upgrade: Warning: unable to delete old directory /etc/X11/fonts/misc Possibly relevant message copied down from screen in bad handwriting during upgrade: Setting up ttf-thryomanes (1.2-2) Installing new version of config file /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-thryomanes.hints ... Regenerating /etc/vfontcap... done Use of uninitialized value in print at /var/lib/defoma/scripts/gs.defoma line 108 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:19:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily resolved using aptitude's suggestions. First it wanted to install an xfree86 package to fix things, but the second alternative was xfs, which I chose. Was that wrong? I don't think so, xfs 1:1.0.1-5 works without problems for me as a font server for Xorg 7.0 Now I cannot get gnucash to work (mission-critical problem), and both emacs and xemacs give me empty boxes for characters (workaround found). The gnucash problem is critical. I really *need* it fixed, and soon. I would have delayed the entire upgrade had I even *suspected* there would be this kind of trouble. gnucash complains: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash --version GnuCash 1.8.10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ What package contains these fonts? adobe-helvetica-... font names are aliases for Nimbus Sans fonts from package gsfonts. I think that you furthermore need gsfonts-x11 to make these postscript type1 fonts available under X. Since you installed the xfs font server during the upgrade you can check if the fonts are known under their aliases: $ fslsfonts -s unix/:7100 | grep 'adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal.*-120' -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso10646-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso10646-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-1 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-1 Also check if you have the following two FontPath elements in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: FontPathunix/:7100 FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 I have a different version of GnuCash (1.9.8 on Sid), therefore I cannot tell you if the above is enough for GnuCash 1.8.10, but it certainly should not hurt. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:19:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I cannot get gnucash to work (mission-critical problem), and both emacs and xemacs give me empty boxes for characters (workaround found). The gnucash problem is critical. I really *need* it fixed, and soon. I would have delayed the entire upgrade had I even *suspected* there would be this kind of trouble. gnucash complains: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Warning: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load fallback font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash --version GnuCash 1.8.10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ this problem crops up on the gnucash-user list from time to time, check the archives there. also, check the deb-user archives as there are a number of threads about font issues during the xorg update. sorry I can't be more specific. But, you are right that gnucash can't find the fonts it needs. the font paths changed in xorg 7.0... hth. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
