platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686, linux-gnu
status
major 2
minor 6.0
year 2007
month 10
day 03
svn rev 43063
language R
version.string R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
Linux version: RHEL3
This worked happily for quite some time but suddenly, I received
this message:
> x11()
Error in x11() :
could not find any X11 fonts
Check that the Font Path is correct.
I can't think of what could have happened to have changed anything.
So I tried this:
$ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -l
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
9: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
10:
I don't know what one would normally expect to see there, so I don't
know
if that's strange or not. The space after the 10: looks suspicious I
must
admit but it might be as it should.
I notice in the archives that some people had a problem getting the font
path set in the first place, but that can't be the case here.
Someone had a problem with Gentoo but doesn't seem to have any
responses.
Either that or the threading not working at
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/71651.html makes it
tricky to find one. In any case that one doesn't appear to have worked
previously anyway.
The only thing I can think of which might have made a difference is my
addition to my .Rprofile to change the default device. However,
removing that change did not fix the problem.
Nothing else has a problem (including the pdf plotting device), so it's
not exactly a disaster, but I'd like to know how it could have arisen.
TIA
Patrick Connolly
