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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:04:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: editors/nedit font weirdness
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0902201001530.10716@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <499EC082.90300@sasktel.net>
References:  <499EC082.90300@sasktel.net>

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Stephen Hurd wrote:

> I recently updated my ports and rebuilt and now any time I try to run nedit, 
> I get a handfull of "Cannot load font." errors followed by a segfault. 
> However, *if* I have xfontsel running, I only get a few warnings, then nedit 
> runs normally.  Maybe some fonts have been removed?  I have performed a 
> portupgrade -fRr editors/nedit to no avail.
>
> The warnings I get when xfontsel is running are:
> Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to 
> type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to 
> type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to 
> type FontStruct
>
> And when xfontsel is *not* running, I get:
> Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to 
> type FontStruct
> Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
>
>   Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
>   Class: XmRendition
>   Conversion failed.  Cannot load font.

[ ... ]

I haven't upgraded yet to the new Xorg, and given all the problems
I've seen recently, I don't have any plans to in the near future.
I suspect this is probably somehow related to that, but I don't
really know other than I don't see this problem on any of my
systems with earlier Xorg ports.

-- 
DE



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