Hello.

Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.


$ ps2pdf a.ps
Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
Operand stack:
Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
Current file position is 5611
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


Any clues?

Romildo

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:42:26 -0300
José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
> message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
>
>
> $ ps2pdf a.ps
> Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
> Operand stack:
> Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic
> Execution stack:
> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> Current file position is 5611
> GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
>
> Any clues?
>
> Romildo
>

Have had such stuff for quite some time…
unfortunately I did not write that down…

I remember it was some problem with font loading in X, somehow the order mattered, had to edit xorg.conf and .xinitrc to get it all right

On 09/27/12 22:42, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:

Hello.

Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.


$ ps2pdf a.ps
Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
Operand stack:
Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
Current file position is 5611
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


Any clues?

Romildo


I had a problem in the past xpdf wasn't able to find the correct fonts, see topic in:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-907720-highlight-fonts.html

--
Joseph

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42:26PM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
> message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
>
>
> $ ps2pdf a.ps
> Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
> Operand stack:
> Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic
> Execution stack:
> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> Current file position is 5611
> GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I have filled a bug report:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436500

Romildo