R SIG Debian - Feb 2014 - Font issue in Debian Jesse after updates

Hi,

My primary work computer (on which I have no sudo privileges) is running 
Debian jessie. For various reasons I need to compile R in my personal 
directory rather than using the site-wide install.

On 2013-12-20 the sysadmin ran apt-get upgrade, and now any R that I 
compile errors when I try to use X11 fonts:

 > plot(1:10)
Error in axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
   could not find any X11 fonts
Check that the Font Path is correct.

Anything compiled prior to the update is fine (e.g., I have two R-3.0.2 
versions, one from before the upgrade and one I compiled yesterday. One 
can find X11 fonts, and the other cannot, so it isn't a locale problem).

Has anybody seen this? Any suggestions?

Best,

Jim

-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
University of Washington
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
4225 Roosevelt Way NE, # 100
Seattle WA 98105-6099

Hi,

did you talk to your sysadmin about this? It is not possible to see what 
happened as you do not provide a build log, but it seems some x fonts
arent't
installed any more, or some xorg related headers (-dev packages) are not 
present on the build machine.

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2014, 11:46:27 schrieb James W.
MacDonald:
> Hi,
> 
> My primary work computer (on which I have no sudo privileges) is running
> Debian jessie. For various reasons I need to compile R in my personal
> directory rather than using the site-wide install.
> 
> On 2013-12-20 the sysadmin ran apt-get upgrade, and now any R that I
> 
> compile errors when I try to use X11 fonts:
>  > plot(1:10)
> 
> Error in axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>    could not find any X11 fonts
> Check that the Font Path is correct.
> 
> Anything compiled prior to the update is fine (e.g., I have two R-3.0.2
> versions, one from before the upgrade and one I compiled yesterday. One
> can find X11 fonts, and the other cannot, so it isn't a locale
problem).
> 
> Has anybody seen this? Any suggestions?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim