FC5T2 problems: gnome-terminal, emacs and evolution

[gb spam]

On 1/17/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:17:50PM -0500, gb spam wrote:
> > > *)  emacs is broken. Probably an upgrade issue. I just get empty squares
> > > where
> > > each letter should be. Its a font-server issue: if I run the emacs on the
> > > FC5T2 machine sending output to another screen all is well
> > > Warning: Cannot convert string
> > > "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> >
> > you have a font rpm missing.  i had the same problem, wasn't sure
> > which rpm it was, so installed all rpms with 'font' in the name.  now
> > that they're all installed, it looks like either
> > xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-1.0.0-2 or
> > xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-1.0.0-2 provides 8859-1 helvetica.
>
> Odd. I have the 75dpi package installed, and I see the problem. So I
> installed the 100dpi package, and still see it. See the email I'm
> about to ship for details of my installation.

forgot to mention, had to do a service xfs restart too.

If that doesn't work, try

yum install \*font\*