Upgraded to 7.2, emacs fails with Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed May 23 21:40:02 UTC 2007


On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:25:08PM -0400, Jeffrey Racine wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Just upgraded a FreeBSD 6.2 system to xorg 7.2 Upgrade had a few
> hiccups, but all now done and appears to be running (thanks!).
> 
> However, just fired up emacs and get a bunch of boxes with no fonts and
> the message
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> 
> All other apps appear to run fine...
> 
> No idea how to diagnose the problem, so any help would be most
> appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Verify you have the x11/xorg port installed

Kris


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