Dear All,

Since upgrading from Fedora 8 to 9, I've been having the font problem exemplified by this terminal session:

[dan@seagull ~]$ emacs Font `-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1' is not defined <and no emacs window appears> [dan@seagull ~]$ ps Uroot | grep -i 'xfs' 304 ? S< 0:00 [xfslogd/0] 305 ? S< 0:00 [xfsdatad/0] 306 ? S< 0:00 [xfs_mru_cache] [dan@seagull ~]$ grep -i 'Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1' /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir courR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 courR12-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-14 courR12-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-15 [dan@seagull ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/courR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4108 2008-01-14 18:01 /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/courR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz [dan@seagull ~]$ su Password: [dan@seagull dan]# /etc/init.d/xfs stop Shutting down xfs: [ OK ] [dan@seagull dan]# /etc/init.d/xfs start Starting xfs: [ OK ] [dan@seagull dan]# exit exit [dan@seagull ~]$ emacs <emacs now runs with no problem and no error message>

Any ideas why the fiddling with xfs is necessary, and how I can avoid it, please?