many programs do not start due to missing fonts

Binary package hint: xbase-clients

Hi,

In the latest edgy as of Sep 29 2006, I get the following:

% xfontsel
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
%

and similarly for lots of oldish x clients such as xmessage; as in, anything not using fontconfig or similar.

Since it looks a lot like Debian bug 368732 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368732), and that recommends installing xfs as a workaround, I tried that and it works. (This is also where I got the idea to make this an xbase-clients bug. Not sure if that's really where the problems are.)

Versions of potentially related packages:

ii fontconfig 2.3.2-7ubuntu2 generic font configuration library - support
ii xbase-clients 1.1 X Window System client utility transitional
ii xfs 1.0.2-0ubuntu1 X font server
ii xorg 7.0.22ubuntu10 X.Org X Window System