[R-sig-Debian] Font issue in Debian Jesse after updates

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Johannes,

Thanks for responding. Turns out the problem was me. I have an

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=

in my .bashrc that I sometimes need that I neglected to comment back 
out.

Best,

Jim



On Monday, February 17, 2014 4:12:16 AM, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> 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
>

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