Error: Aborting: no font found

[chrisdane]

Hi

/albedo/soft/sw/ushow/0.1.3/bin/ushow -m $griddes sst.fesom.200101.01.nc
=== ushow: Unstructured Data Viewer ===

Data file: sst.fesom.200101.01.nc
Mesh file: /albedo/work/projects/p_pool_recom/meshes/fesom2/core2/core2_griddes_nodes.nc
Resolution: 1.00 degrees
Influence radius: 80000 m

Opening data file(s)...
Loading mesh...
Coordinate info: lon 1D [126858], lat 1D [126858]
Detected: 1D unstructured coordinates (126858 points)
Creating regrid structure...
Creating regrid: 360 x 180 target grid (64800 points)
Influence radius: 80000 m (chord: 0.012557)
Building KDTree from 126858 source points...
Computing nearest neighbors for 64800 target points...
  Progress: 30/180 rows (16.7%)
  Progress: 60/180 rows (33.3%)
  Progress: 90/180 rows (50.0%)
  Progress: 120/180 rows (66.7%)
  Progress: 150/180 rows (83.3%)
  Progress: 180/180 rows (100.0%)
Regrid created: 45899/64800 valid target points (70.8%)
Scanning for variables...
Found variable: sst [time=1, nod2=126858] (time=0) (node=1)
Found 1 displayable variables
Initializing display...
Warning: Cannot convert string "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found

I had the same error with ncview: on my local computer, ncview's fallback font helvetica

ncview-2.1.11/src/interface/fallback_resources.h
static String fallback_resources[] = {
	"Ncview*font:			-*-helvetica-*-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*",

is not installed (helvetica is a closed source font). The solution is to set some generic font via

cat ~/my/path/Ncview
Ncview*font: fixed

and

export XAPPLRESDIR="$(readlink -f ~/my/path)" # relative path not allowed

Maybe that's a similar issue here?

Thanks!