Unable to load any usable fontset

Unable to load any usable fontset

[Daniel Klein]

Hello all,

I am trying to run an emacs on a remote server, forwarding the display to my 
box. I am not the guy who installed emacs on that server, but I have root 
access if I need to fix anything. When I try to run xemacs (gnu emacs opens 
inside the terminal, which is not the behaviour I'm used to from another 
remote server, where gnu emacs opens its own window on my display properly) I 
get this error:

Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset

I'm using XEmacs 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" [Lucid] (i386-suse-linux, 
Mule) of Sat Jun 23 2001. Could anyone maybe quickly tell me where to look? 

In case the backtrace is relevant, I appended it to the end of this mail. 

Besides opening inside the terminal, the GNU emacs behaves very oddly in many 
other ways too. It doesn't accept any F key for instance and complains about 
not finding /usr/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias (that /locale/ dir doesn't exist 
on that box at all.) In case I will have to use gnuemacs in a terminal, what 
would be a fix to that?

Thanks,
Daniel

Re: Unable to load any usable fontset

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Klein wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to run an emacs on a remote server, forwarding the display to my 
> box. I am not the guy who installed emacs on that server, but I have root 
> access if I need to fix anything. When I try to run xemacs (gnu emacs opens 
> inside the terminal, which is not the behaviour I'm used to from another 
> remote server, where gnu emacs opens its own window on my display properly) I 
> get this error:
> 
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> 
> I'm using XEmacs 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" [Lucid] (i386-suse-linux, 
> Mule) of Sat Jun 23 2001. Could anyone maybe quickly tell me where to look? 


Is the DISPLAY environment variable set, before you invoke Emacs


	echo $DISPLAY

or after

	M-: (getenv "DISPLAY") RET


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Re: Unable to load any usable fontset

[Daniel Klein]

> Is the DISPLAY environment variable set, before you invoke Emacs
>
>
> 	echo $DISPLAY
>
> or after
>
> 	M-: (getenv "DISPLAY") RET

Sorry for being unclear on this, of course DISPLAY is set, and yes I have 
entered the host of the remote server is in my xhost list on the local box. 
Ghostview for instance launches fine from that same remote server.

Any more ideas?

Re: Unable to load any usable fontset

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Klein wrote:

> Sorry for being unclear on this, of course DISPLAY is set, and yes I have 
> entered the host of the remote server is in my xhost list on the local box. 
> Ghostview for instance launches fine from that same remote server.
> 
> Any more ideas?


Does `M-x emacs-version RET' display anything about the X toolkit?


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Re: Unable to load any usable fontset

[Daniel Klein]

On Friday 27 June 2003 18:39, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>
> Does `M-x emacs-version RET' display anything about the X toolkit?

GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-suse-linux) of Sam Jun 23 2001 on recorde

Doesn't look like it.. after all this one doesn't load anything for x.. is it 
not default that GNU Emacs can open a window on X?

Daniel

Re: Unable to load any usable fontset

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Klein wrote:

> On Friday 27 June 2003 18:39, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> 
>>Does `M-x emacs-version RET' display anything about the X toolkit?
>>
> 
> GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-suse-linux) of Sam Jun 23 2001 on recorde
> 
> Doesn't look like it.. after all this one doesn't load anything for x.. is it 
> not default that GNU Emacs can open a window on X?

By default, Emacs would have been built with X support if the X headers and
libraries were installed.  It must have been explicitly configured --without-x
or --without-x-toolkit.  Complain to your system administrator.

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