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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
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Subject: Re: email client mahogany does not work
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On 2004-08-30 06:44, Chip <chip@wiegand.org> wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD-5.2.1 and installed the email client Mahogany from
> the package yesterday. When I run it it crashes with this message -
>
> bash-2.05b$ mahogany &
> [1] 24502
> bash-2.05b$ Fatal Error: can't load any font, aborting
>
> [1]+  Abort trap              (core dumped) mahogany
> bash-2.05b$
>
> What's up with the font error? Everything else runs fine. I am running
> KDE, Thunderbird, Firefox and more with no problems.

Does "xlsfonts" work at your prompt?

        $ xlsfonts | more

If this doesn't work, then you might have unset (or forgotten to set)
the DISPLAY environment variable, or have other issues with fonts and
your X11 setup.