After upgrade to RedHat 7.0, gnumeric no longer works.
- From: Steve Cohen <cohsteve home com>
 
- To: gnumeric-list gnome org
 
- Subject: After upgrade to RedHat 7.0, gnumeric no longer works.
 
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:33:54 -0600
 
I recently upgraded a RedHat 6.2 system to 7.0.  Upgrade was done via 
FTPing all the RPMS as described by RedHat at 
http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html. Followed by running 
the upgrade function of the redhat installer.  The upgrade was to all 
appearances successful.  No error messages appeared.
However, when I attempt to start gnumeric now, I get a screen telling me 
the following
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"Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font.
Please verify your gnome-print installation and that your fontmap file 
(typically located in /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap) is not empty or 
near-empty.
If you still have no luck, please file a proper bug report (see 
http://bugs.gnome.org) including the following extra items:
1. values of LC_ALL and LANG enviroment variables.
2. Your fontmap file (see above).
Thanks - the Gnumeric team"
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On pressing the OK button Gnumeric exits.
Before I file a bug report (by the way, the "bug" URL mentioned above 
fails to load anything, but it seems it's now called Bugzilla) I want to 
understand a little more.
a.  I have no idea how to "verify my gnome-print installation".  What 
does this mean?
b.  There seems to be no file named fontmap anywhere on my system.  My 
system has no /usr/local/share/fonts directory but it does have a 
/usr/share/fonts directory and this file has no file named fontmap.  
This would seem to be a problem but I don't know what a fontmap file 
should contain and if this is where it should be.  Can anyone enlighten 
me on how this should look in RedHat 7.0?
c. I have no LC_ALL environment variable.
d. LANG = en_US
Can anyone tell me what is going on here?  All other GNOME graphical 
applications seem to work, such as GXEdit, GIMP, gnotepad, gedit, 
Calendar, VIM, etc.
Also running the RPM Verify function over gnumeric-0.54-4.i386.rpm (the 
RPM that came with the install) tells me that everything is in order, 
but obviously, it isn't.
Sincerely,
Steve Cohen
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