Comment # 10 on bug 1118557 from Stefan Br�ns

(In reply to Ulrich Windl from comment #9)
> Some more mysteries:
> * I can convert a DVI file to PNG using dvipng without a problem.

Of course. dvipng does not use X11 Core fonts.

> * Listing the fonts (xdvi -l) of one problematic files shows:
> xdvi: cmti10 at 657 dpi
> xdvi: cmbx10 at 657 dpi
> xdvi: cmbx12 at 720 dpi
> xdvi: cmr12 at 720 dpi
> xdvi: cmr8 at 600 dpi
> xdvi: cmr12 at 600 dpi
> xdvi: cmr10 at 657 dpi
> xdvi: cmr7 at 600 dpi
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Error: Aborting: no fontset found

Let me repeat:
** TEX FONTS ARE IRRELEVANT HERE **

xdvi is missing an X11 Core font. Create a DVI file with an empty page, you
will get the same error.