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Moriah
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 Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:49 pm Post subject: HELP - unable to open fontset "-adobe... -- SOLVED |
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A recent update has apparently messed up some adobe fonts. I originally thought this was confined to a single machine, but I find now that it has affected many machines. When I try to start the twm window manager, it fails with:
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baruch ~ # DISPLAY=:1 twm &
[2] 5506
baruch ~ # twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
[2]+ Exit 1 DISPLAY=:1 twm
baruch ~ #
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How can I get the missing fonts back? I can't install them by name; they must be part of some installable package somewhere.
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media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
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Moriah
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Tried that already. Didn't work. 
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Moriah
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 11:53 am Post subject: |
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I emerged both font packages:
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emerge media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
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I then did the recommended:
but xset was not installed, so I emerged it and ran the above command again with no errors, but when I tried to run twm, I still got:
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baruch ~ # DISPLAY=:1 twm &
[2] 27192
baruch ~ # twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
[2]+ Exit 1 DISPLAY=:1 twm
baruch ~ #
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So something has gotten messed up by a recent update. I normally apply updates once a week. The twm window manager normally runs until a reboot is required for whatever reason. I recently had to reboot a machine and afterwards could not start twm bcause of this font problem. I thought is was something unique to that machine, but 2 days ago I had to reboot another machine, and ended up with the same problem. Because twm is normally started when vnc is started, and I use vnc to manage a bunch of headless machines, this is a real problem for me.
I also tried re-emerging twm. Still no good, even thought the emerge went fine.
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Moriah
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I was able to work around this problem, not solve it, by switching to ctwm instead of twm.
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