email client mahogany does not work

Chip chip at wiegand.org
Wed Sep 1 21:41:48 PDT 2004


Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-08-30 06:44, Chip <chip at wiegand.org> wrote:
> 
>>I am running FreeBSD-5.2.1 and installed the email client Mahogany from
>>the package yesterday. When I run it it crashes with this message -
>>
>>bash-2.05b$ mahogany &
>>[1] 24502
>>bash-2.05b$ Fatal Error: can't load any font, aborting
>>
>>[1]+  Abort trap              (core dumped) mahogany
>>bash-2.05b$
>>
>>What's up with the font error? Everything else runs fine. I am running
>>KDE, Thunderbird, Firefox and more with no problems.
> 
> 
> Does "xlsfonts" work at your prompt?
> 
>         $ xlsfonts | more
> 
> If this doesn't work, then you might have unset (or forgotten to set)
> the DISPLAY environment variable, or have other issues with fonts and
> your X11 setup.

xlsfonts | more responds with a listing of all the fonts, a very long 
listing at that. As for X, it is a default install with KDE as the 
window manager.
--
Chip



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