My new RHEL6 systems are not displaying X11 fonts properly. I have installed a xfs server and can run fslsfonts and see all the fonts the font server is providing. I have added a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and added FontPath "unix/:7100" to it and the /var/log/Xorg.0.log says its including the new FontPath. XFS server is running properly but X will not communicate with it.

There must be a basic under lying problem. I figured I would try to see why the X11 fonts in /etc/X11/fontpath.d are not even listed. Here are a few examples of X applications trying to load a font. Has anyone see this problem or know if a fix to this issue.

Notes:

* RH4 systems in my environment do not have any issues running the same X11 applications and xlsfonts list the entire X11 fonts on the system.
* lsfonts in RHEL6 do not seem to list the fonts that I see in /etc/X11/fontpath.d
* I have ran the following to update the X11 packages: yum groupinstall "X Window System"
* Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.4 (Santiago)
* uname -a "Linux lco-vlsi-lg9 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 29 11:47:41 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

Application example One:

$ xemacs
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
$ xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
$ /apps/xemacs/21.5.34-r1/bin/xemacs -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset

Application example Two:

$ xlsfonts
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13
6x13
cursor
cursor
fixed
fixed
$
$ xterm
Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct

Hi:

Welcome to Linux Questions-

I'm not running RHEL but I'll give it my best go to help you.

Creating a file ~/.Xdefaults might help-

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1896584

Based on your error:
I'm not 100% sure but I think the charsets are missing.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2013-02/msg00002.html

The fonts are stored in /usr/share/fonts-

The solution for this error:
4 steps here:
http://www.artwork.com/gdsii/qckvu/faq/linux_font.htm

Information on xclient handling font rendering in Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/site/docum...1-x-fonts.html

Hope that helps.


Give a Red Hat Support Engineer a call.
http://www.redhat.com/support/we-are/

I looked up the last error:
And found this SOLVED information about it--
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipe...ry/393071.html

If this doesn't help than maybe a more experienced member with Red Hat can use these links to help you.

Best regards,
Ztcoracat--