app-text/xpdf stopped working for me here, but I am not at all shure why this happens, or indeed wether xpdf is the guilty party. A pdf2ps conversion works fine. I added fonts-misc-misc and fonts-cursor-misc to my system, and rebuilt my fonts and poppler and xpdf itself to no avail. When opening any file, I do get a looong error output. It begins with: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING Class: XmRendition Conversion failed. Cannot load font. The latter warning is repeated multiple times, and on it goes with the next font. ================== My emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc40 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30.5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30.5-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/share/X11" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dri dts dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam fftw firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libnotify mad mikmod mmx mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection session spl sqlite ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Have you tried restarting X after installing the additional fonts?
Ouch! I didn't. After a restart of X xpdf was fine again. Also, I then unmerged the font-misc-misc and font-cursor-misc packages again and found xpdf still working. So it is _not_ the fonts. As far as I can now tell, the culprit actually was the update of the xorg-server from 1.6.3 to 1.6.3.901 without restarting afterwards. Before, I never encountered a problem with keeping the old version running for a couple weeks until I happened to reboot for a fresh kernel. Obviously, I should not rely on that. I am resolving the bug as invalid. Sorry for the noise.
