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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2007 17:40:01 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jeffrey Racine <racinej@mcmaster.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgraded to 7.2, emacs fails with Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Message-ID:  <20070523214001.GA64484@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1179955508.1126.13.camel@pc-racine2.economics.McMaster.CA>
References:  <1179955508.1126.13.camel@pc-racine2.economics.McMaster.CA>

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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:25:08PM -0400, Jeffrey Racine wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Just upgraded a FreeBSD 6.2 system to xorg 7.2 Upgrade had a few
> hiccups, but all now done and appears to be running (thanks!).
> 
> However, just fired up emacs and get a bunch of boxes with no fonts and
> the message
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> 
> All other apps appear to run fine...
> 
> No idea how to diagnose the problem, so any help would be most
> appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Verify you have the x11/xorg port installed

Kris



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