Emacs 24 font issue

[drain]

Terminal readout when I launch:

"Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct"

I'd really like to fix this. I'm using Emacs 23 to preserve the old, larger, rounder font.

[Diep Pham Van-2]

Same problem here.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:26:04PM -0700, drain wrote:

> Terminal readout when I launch:
>
> "Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct"
>
> I'd really like to fix this. I'm using Emacs 23 to preserve the old, larger,
> rounder font.
>
>
>
>
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[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:44:42 +0700
> From: Diep Pham Van <[hidden email]>
> Cc: [hidden email]
>
> Same problem here.
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:26:04PM -0700, drain wrote:
> > Terminal readout when I launch:
> >
> > "Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct"
> >
> > I'd really like to fix this. I'm using Emacs 23 to preserve the old, larger,
> > rounder font.

Please type "M-x report-emacs-bug" and report this as a bug.

[drain]

In the meantime, what's the closest font to the one Emacs 24 is failing to display?

[drain]

Fixed the problem. I updated to Emacs 24.2.50.1.

However, my compile of Emacs 24.1.1 did not involve updating and compiling from the repository. I probably missed something. So it may not necessarily be a 24.1.1 issue.

I did precisely this for those who want a guaranteed font fix:

sudo apt-get install git build-essential
sudo sudo apt-get build-dep emacs

git clone git://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs
cd emacs
./autogen.sh &> log.autogen
./configure &> log.configure
make bootstrap &> log.bootstrap
sudo make install &> log.install