matt, when was the last time you updated your system? it's my understanding
that sid regularly breaks for short periods of time.
anyway, without X running, from console, do:
X -probeonly 2>X.err
(yes, that's one dash. why? i dunno!)
look for error messages. i believe this might be kept (also) in
/var/log/xdm.log, although why it's called "xdm" is beyond me. another
wierdness.
also, go to your font directories and make sure that that "fonts.alias" and
"fonts.dir" exist. run 'mkfontdir *' if not.
p
begin: Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> I seem to have screwed up my X fonts somehow -- most of the common X
> programs from the xbase-clients package (xmessage, xdvi, xedit,
> xfontsel, xman, etc.) all give the following message when I try to run
> them:
>
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet confersion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Segmentation fault
>
> Other X programs (built with gtk, qt, kde, etc.) all work properly.
>
> I am running XFree86 4.1 under Debian (sid). I do not run xfs or any
> other font server. My XF86Config-4 file loads the "type1" and
> "freetype" modules and points to various font paths under
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/. I have the the following font packages
> installed:
>
>
> mattrope@poseidon:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep font
> gsfonts install
> gsfonts-x11 install
> psfontmgr install
> xfonts-100dpi install
> xfonts-75dpi install
> xfonts-base install
> xfonts-scalable install
>
>
> I'm not sure exactly when this problem began, but I'm pretty sure
> everything was working properly a month or so ago. I don't recall
> changing anything recently that could have caused this problem... It's
> probably something stupid that I'm overlooking. Can anyone give me some
> insight?
>
>
> Matt
>
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