[opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

5 Feb 2007

      Hi,

I've upgraded from SuSE 10.1 to OpenSuse 10.2 and have everything
working apart from the X11 version of emacs. Attempting to run it I get:

18:36 >emacs -q
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

The whole emacs display is then full of boxes instead of the usual text.
If I run with my .emacs it's usually enough to segfault emacs.

I did a bit of digging with Google and found the following message:

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2006-02/msg00071.html

But was unable to glean anything from it. I have pretty much all the
fonts installed and everything else seems to be displaying fine.
Grepping over /etc/ and /usr/share didn't seem to show anything setup to
refer to this font descriptor. A strings on the emacs binary seems to
show this is a default config.

I did find some mentiones of .Xdefaults and .Xresources on the net but
nothing that seemed to make any difference. Besides shoudn't any config
magic for emacs be part of the emacs-x11 package so it runs out of the
box?

As suggested looking at the referenced email I tried looking at how many
fonts where installed:
...
xlsfonts | wc -l
657
However greping for helv or cour didn't show any up.

Can anybody offer any light? Is it just me and some artifact of the
upgrade or is emacs broken?

-- 
Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." --
Isaac Asimov

-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Alex Bennee

Bernhard Walle

Anders Johansson

Alex Bennee

Anders Johansson

Alex Bennee

Anders Johansson

Anders Johansson

Alex Bennee

tags

participants (3)