FC5T2 problems: gnome-terminal, emacs and evolution

[Jens Petersen]

William John Murray 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

Yep it caused by the missing %post script in xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1: see
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174416>, which still
hasn't been fixed yet: it is on the FC5Blocker tracker.

The workaround for now is to run "mkfontdir /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" by hand
 as root.

Hth, Jens