From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57DA138010 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 17:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6065721C01C; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 17:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E22B421C015 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 17:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Oct 2012 17:25:23 -0000 Received: from sign-4d094d50.pool.mediaWays.net (EHLO Taschenheizung) [77.9.77.80] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 01 Oct 2012 19:25:23 +0200 X-Authenticated: #41475677 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+G/91F/teGQy8C775HokGetwKl/SvLg03uwtUUQa pFPGITEIy/1yRw Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:47:45 +0200 From: Daniel Wagener To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font Message-Id: <20121001094746.4f4a7960.stelf@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20120928014226.GA10511@romildo.no-ip.org> References: <20120928014226.GA10511@romildo.no-ip.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.4 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 0338210a-bf84-4b0f-90cf-f3b00f7ecd6d X-Archives-Hash: c031169795ac0d2f9a1e721fa37b202a On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:42:26 -0300 José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Hello. > > Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error > message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica. > > > $ ps2pdf a.ps > Error: /invalidfont in /findfont > Operand stack: > Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic > Execution stack: > %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop > Dictionary stack: > --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)-- > Current allocation mode is local > Last OS error: No such file or directory > Current file position is 5611 > GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > > > Any clues? > > Romildo > Have had such stuff for quite some time… unfortunately I did not write that down… :( I remember it was some problem with font loading in X, somehow the order mattered, had to edit xorg.conf and .xinitrc to get it all right