Messed up fonts in emacs

First Screen shot with the first screen.

I can confirm this, it also happens for me on a machine upgraded from Dapper. It also happens with the emacs-snapshot package.

The emacs fonts were fine in Dapper.

It's failing to find the font for the default face. On
Dapper, this appears to be
-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--17-120-100-100-M-100-ISO8859-1
by default.

(This is actually a poor default. misc-fixed would be
better since it has a decent iso10646-1 repertoire.)

I meant to come back and comment on this. Its due to the font paths in edgy being different from those in dapper. In dapper the fonts are in /usr/share/X11/fonts, while the fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/ (I believe, I am away from my edgy machine). Changing all the font paths and restarting X is good enough to get emacs back. So this should be assigned to xserver-xorg.

Oh, and the reason emacs is affected and the rest of gnome isn't is because gnome uses xft. I can't wait for emacs 22 with xft support.

Yes, changing my xorg.conf to use the FontPath lines below fixes the problem for me.

        FontPath "unix/:7100"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"

Attempt to change package, emacs21 -> xorg.

I believe that the latest edgy update fixes this problem. I had it, but it now has seemed to have gone away.

I'd forgotten commenting on this before I submitted
#64003. That was from a fairly recent upgrade to edgy.
I don't see any relevant fixes, and the related bugs are
still open (surprisingly, since this seems relatively
serious). Can you identify a specific change which fixes
it?

I don't know if the following helps or not, but the following is the diff of my xorg.conf.

- An old one: xorg.conf.200603211710
- Today: xorg.conf

Where the font path has changed for 'misc' fonts only.

The following diff is from the more recent upgrade in edgy.

- Previous: xorg.conf.20060930213730
- Today: xorg.conf

No relevent configuration file changes, as far as I can see, but it might give you an idea of what changed in the upgrade.

In both of these cases, I have taken the default, and auto-detection options from 'dpkg-reconfigure'.

IMHO the bug is still here. I've changed mu xorg.conf file to use the right directory (/usr/share/fonts/X11/). Now, refreshing xorg.conf file using dpkg-reconfigure, I should have a working file

#### start console log ####

  $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
  xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
     file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20061016123838
  $ diff -Naur /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20061016123838 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
--- /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20061016123838 2006-10-16 12:38:38.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/X11/xorg.conf 2006-10-16 12:38:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@
 # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

 Section "Files"
+ FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
+ FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
+ FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
+ FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
+ FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
+ FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
+ FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        # path to defoma fonts
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
  $ ls /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
encodings.dir fonts.alias fonts.cache-1 fonts.dir

#### end console log ####

So, currently:
  1. font files are installed in /usr/share/fonts/X11/* directories
  2. the dpkg-reconfigure command (it should recreate xorg.conf file as in a fresh install, removing all manual customizations, isn't it?) sets FontPaths to non working directories (no font files in /usr/share/X11/fonts/*)

I supplied a fix under #63408 (which has this one marked as a
duplicate) and gave it a better title. I hope a maintainer
will now fix it.

The xorg.conf at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/4845704/xorg.conf-ps1.diff and attached to this bug is problematic for the following reason:
An EndSection is in the wrong place.

The xorg.conf at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/4845709/xorg.conf-ps2.diff and attached to this bug is problematic for the following reason:
An EndSection is in the wrong place.

The xorg.conf at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/4845704/xorg.conf-ps1.diff and attached to this bug is problematic for the following reason:
An EndSection is in the wrong place.

The xorg.conf at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/4845709/xorg.conf-ps2.diff and attached to this bug is problematic for the following reason:
An EndSection is in the wrong place.