What's up with gnome-terminal?

[Rem P Roberti]

On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +0000, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rem P Roberti <remegius at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to
> > load it I get this error message:
> >
> > **
> > ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
> > (app->system_font_desc != NULL)
> > Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
> >
> > Funny thing is that a year or so ago I used to use gnome-terminal on
> > another installation with no problems.  Did something change?
> >
> > Rem
> >
> >
> Works great here and I doubt it a problem w/ terminal itself.  Perhaps your
> install is borked, try reinstalling, checking for lost/broken depends, etc.

I'm sure your're right. I did a reinstall and that didn't change
anything. Is there a config file I need to tweak?  A daemon I'm not
starting?  Maybe I'm just not running this thing correctly. 

Rem