Fwd: Unrecognizable fonts with Red Hat 7.2 and AbiWord 0.9.6

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 11:15:52 GMT

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    Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 06:03:29 -0800
    From: CE <eidem@students.sonoma.edu>
    Subject: Unrecognizable fonts with Red Hat 7.2 and AbiWord 0.9.6
    To: abiword-dev@nyorp.abisource.com
    Cc: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
    Message-id: <20020218060329.53e78cd6.eidem@students.sonoma.edu>
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    Installing AbiWord from RPMS obtained from Ximian
    (abiword-0.9.6.1-ximian.1.i386.rpm and
    abiword-0.9.6.1-ximian.2.i386.rpm) or www.abisource.com
    (abiword-fonts-0.9.6.1-1.i386.rpm and abiword-gnome-0.9.6.1-1.i386.rpm)
    works, but no fonts are found upon loading the application. AbiWord
    give the error message: "AbiWord could not load the following font or
    fontsef from the X Window System display server: [-*-Times New
    Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]" twice before crashing. The RPMS
    do not seem to be adding the path of the AbiSuite fonts to the
    /etc/X11/fs/config file either. The RPM for the fonts or app should be
    adding the appropriate path in this file before executing
    /etc/init.d/xfs restart so the fonts may be found via xfs. Sadly, doing
    this manually doesn't help. This is what happens:
    [root@Tabernale]# /etc/init.d/xfs restart
    Restarting xfs: chmod: getting attributes of `fonts.dir': No such file
    or directory
                                                               [ OK ]
    [root@Tabernale]#

    Attempting to launch AbiWord after this gives the following error
    dialog: "AbiWord could not find any local font files in its font path.
    Often this the the result of invoking AbiWord directly instead of
    through its wrapper shell script. The script sets the environment
    variable $ABISUITE_HOME which should point to the directory where
    AbiSuite components reside. The current font path contains the
    following directories: [/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts] Please visit
    http://www.abisource.com ..."

    Manually making the fonts.dir doesn't work either:
    [root@Tabernale fonts]# mkfontdir
    mkfontdir: bad format for ./fonts.scale file
    mkfontdir: failed to create directory in .
    [root@Tabernale fonts]#

    Trying to use valid TrueType fonts following the instructions on the
    Abisuite.com site doesn't work either and oddly gives the same errors as
    an attempt to use the provided AbiSuite fonts. It's obvious AbiWord's
    font problems are bad. I've had similar problems many times in the past
    (in much older versions) but it was always fixable. I have to say the
    fonts are the only pressing issue keeping me from using AbiWord more
    often.

    All RPMS of 0.9.6 have this problem on my system. I'm running Red Hat
    7.2 with XFree 4.2.0 and the latest Ximian Gnome. I have
    abiword-fonts-0.9.6.1-1 and abiword-0.9.6.1-1 from the AbiSource page
    installed right now.

    Here is a full listing of the fonts AbiWord installs:
    [root@Tabernale]# ls -lh /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/
    total 3.1M
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 a010013l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34k Dec 7 13:38 a010013l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 a010015l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35k Dec 7 13:38 a010015l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 a010033l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34k Dec 7 13:38 a010033l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 a010035l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35k Dec 7 13:38 a010035l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17k Dec 7 13:38 adobe-full.u2g
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6k Dec 7 13:38 adobe-short.u2g
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 b018012l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44k Dec 7 13:38 b018012l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 b018015l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44k Dec 7 13:38 b018015l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 b018032l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43k Dec 7 13:38 b018032l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 b018035l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44k Dec 7 13:38 b018035l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21k Dec 7 13:38 bchb.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22k Dec 7 13:38 bchbi.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68k Dec 7 13:38 bchbi.pfa
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65k Dec 7 13:38 bchb.pfa
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19k Dec 7 13:38 bchr.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19k Dec 7 13:38 bchri.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68k Dec 7 13:38 bchri.pfa
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67k Dec 7 13:38 bchr.pfa
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 c059013l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46k Dec 7 13:38 c059013l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 c059016l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48k Dec 7 13:38 c059016l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 c059033l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45k Dec 7 13:38 c059033l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 c059036l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46k Dec 7 13:38 c059036l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.2k Dec 7 13:38 d050000l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45k Dec 7 13:38 d050000l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7k Dec 7 13:38 d050000l.u2g
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8k Dec 7 13:38 dingbats.e2u
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.1k Dec 7 13:38 fonts.scale
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019003l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35k Dec 7 13:38 n019003l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019004l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35k Dec 7 13:38 n019004l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019023l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37k Dec 7 13:38 n019023l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019024l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38k Dec 7 13:38 n019024l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019043l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36k Dec 7 13:38 n019043l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019044l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36k Dec 7 13:38 n019044l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019063l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36k Dec 7 13:38 n019063l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n019064l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37k Dec 7 13:38 n019064l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n021003l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45k Dec 7 13:38 n021003l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n021004l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44k Dec 7 13:38 n021004l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n021023l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44k Dec 7 13:38 n021023l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n021024l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44k Dec 7 13:38 n021024l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n022003l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45k Dec 7 13:38 n022003l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n022004l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49k Dec 7 13:38 n022004l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n022023l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43k Dec 7 13:38 n022023l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 n022024l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50k Dec 7 13:38 n022024l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 p052003l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51k Dec 7 13:38 p052003l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 p052004l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51k Dec 7 13:38 p052004l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 p052023l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49k Dec 7 13:38 p052023l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 p052024l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50k Dec 7 13:38 p052024l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5k Dec 7 13:38 s050000l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33k Dec 7 13:38 s050000l.pfb
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5k Dec 7 13:38 s050000l.u2g
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5k Dec 7 13:38 symbol.e2u
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31k Dec 7 13:38 z003034l.afm
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48k Dec 7 13:38 z003034l.pfb

    Debugging Information:

    (no debugging symbols found)...0x40b76e29 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
    #0 0x40b76e29 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
    #1 0x40bf3050 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/libc.so.6
    #2 0x403497ae in gnome_segv_handle (signum=11) at gnome-init.c:664
    #3 <signal handler called>
    #4 0x08119422 in GR_UnixGraphics::getFontAscent ()
    #5 0x081484c9 in fp_Run::_inheritProperties ()
    #6 0x0814a62e in fp_EndOfParagraphRun::lookupProperties ()
    #7 0x0814a5f6 in fp_EndOfParagraphRun::fp_EndOfParagraphRun ()
    #8 0x0813019a in fl_BlockLayout::_insertEndOfParagraphRun ()
    #9 0x0812f1eb in fl_BlockLayout::fl_BlockLayout ()
    #10 0x0813c110 in fl_SectionLayout::insertBlock ()
    #11 0x08140648 in fl_SectionLayout::appendBlock ()
    #12 0x0813b13d in fl_DocListener::populateStrux ()
    #13 0x0815eb20 in pt_PieceTable::_tellAndMaybeAddListener ()
    #14 0x0815ee67 in pt_PieceTable::addListener ()
    #15 0x08154bb2 in PD_Document::addListener ()
    #16 0x0813879c in FL_DocLayout::FL_DocLayout ()
    #17 0x080ece53 in AP_UnixFrame::_showDocument ()
    #18 0x080eda83 in AP_UnixFrame::loadDocument ()
    #19 0x080ee838 in AP_UnixFrame::loadDocument ()
    #20 0x080d4e2e in AP_UnixGnomeApp::parseCommandLine ()
    #21 0x080d47cd in AP_UnixGnomeApp::main ()
    #22 0x080d4546 in main ()
    #23 0x40adf306 in __libc_start_main (main=0x80d4530 <main>, argc=1,
        ubp_av=0xbffff8c4, init=0x80d1828 <_init>, fini=0x8278280 <_fini>,
        rtld_fini=0x4000d2dc <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff8bc)
        at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
    #0 0x40b76e29 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
    No locals.
    #1 0x40bf3050 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/libc.so.6
    No symbol table info available.
    #2 0x403497ae in gnome_segv_handle (signum=11) at gnome-init.c:664
            in gnome-init.c
    estatus = 139193240
    in_segv = 1
    pid = 0
    #3 <signal handler called>
    No locals.
    #4 0x08119422 in GR_UnixGraphics::getFontAscent ()
    No symbol table info available.
    #5 0x081484c9 in fp_Run::_inheritProperties ()
    No symbol table info available.
    #6 0x0814a62e in fp_EndOfParagraphRun::lookupProperties ()
    No symbol table info available.
    #7 0x0814a5f6 in fp_EndOfParagraphRun::fp_EndOfParagraphRun ()
    No symbol table info available.

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    be so many people so resolutely pursuing it.
    

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