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boshane

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Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 9

Emacs all of a sudden stops working with error "No font backend avail"

Everything was working great, I installed a couple programs (actually, xfce4 only I think), reboot and come back later to emacs saying this:

(process:19802): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
No font backend available

I tried building emacs again, "./configure" finds all the libraries it needs to so I'm not sure what it's asking for...?

I didn't modify any emacs config files or anything...

Thanks guys....

Xiong Chiamiov

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From: central coast, california

Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 142

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Re: Emacs all of a sudden stops working with error "No font backend avail"

Seems like it's GTK that's having a problem, rather than Emacs.  Try running some other GTK app in a terminal and see if you get the same warning.  Something to do with /etc/locale.gen?

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boshane

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Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 9

Re: Emacs all of a sudden stops working with error "No font backend avail"

Seems like it's GTK that's having a problem, rather than Emacs.  Try running some other GTK app in a terminal and see if you get the same warning.  Something to do with /etc/locale.gen?

Everything else seems to be fine, including other GTK apps... I'll investigate the locales warning more closely.