Anders Johansson wrote:

I'm running 7.2 and the greps below produce the same results. What does xlsfonts|grep 120 give you?

I won't burden you with the entire output, but there are 1585 fonts that satisfy the criterion, as the following shows: pwa@suillus:~/notes > xlsfonts | grep 120 | wc -l 1585 pwa@suillus:~/notes > xlsfonts | grep 120 | tail -n30 -mutt-clearlyu pua-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-110-iso10646-1 -mutt-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-128-iso10646-1 -schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-80-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-80-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-70-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-70-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-80-iso646.1991-irv -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-80-iso646.1991-irv -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-170-100-100-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-230-75-75-c-120-iso8859-1 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-230-75-75-c-120-iso8859-1 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-230-75-75-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0 -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-230-75-75-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0 -sun-open look cursor-----12-120-75-75-p-160-sunolcursor-1 -sun-open look cursor-----12-120-75-75-p-160-sunolcursor-1 -sun-open look glyph-----12-120-75-75-p-113-sunolglyph-1 -sun-open look glyph-----12-120-75-75-p-113-sunolglyph-1

On Sunday 09 September 2001 01.00, Paul Abrahams wrote:

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I'm running SuSE 7.1, X4.1.0, and KDE 2.2beta. I have been having a persistent problem with xdvi segfaulting whenever I call it. I just now discovered that I have the same problem with xfontsel, and I believe I know the cause: a likely bug in the version of libXt.so.6 that comes with the SuSE rpm for xshared-4.1.0-10:

pwa@suillus:~/notes > xdvi Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Segmentation fault pwa@suillus:~/notes > xfontsel Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Segmentation fault pwa@suillus:~/notes > strings /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 | grep ISO8859 -*-*-*-R-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font pwa@suillus:~/notes > xlsfonts | grep R pwa@suillus:~/notes > rpm -qf /usr/X11/lib/libXt.so.6 xshared-4.1.0-10

This output reveals several things:

1. xfontsel produces the same error messages as xdvi.

2. The error message is apparently coming from libXt.so.6 (I could not find any other files with the message using grep and strings searching).

3. The first ISO8859 string in libXt.so.6 suggests that the library is looking for a fontname containing an uppercase R, but in fact all the usual fontnames (revealed by xlsfonts) contain a lowercase r.

This problem may well have been introduced in X4.1.0.

Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any suggestions for how to fix it?

Paul