[developers] forwarding request for help (bounce from lkb list)

[Stephan Oepen]

g'day,

weird asian characters in LKB windows, i think,
can be caused by missing Xorg bitmap fonts (to
pick up newly installed fonts, one may have to
restart the X server).

further, the problem of the LKB binaries just not
starting up could be related to a lack of 32-bit
compatibility libraries.  comparing the lists of
installed packages across machines that do
or don't work should be illuminating, indeed.

best, oe


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:10 PM, David Brodbeck <brodbd at uw.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ann Copestake
> <Ann.Copestake at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Problem 2
>> M-x lkb started the lkb system but the english words that are suppposedly on the lkbtop interface became some unknown "asian" character.
>
> I had a similar problem when trying to do an LKB installation on
> Knoppix, but it went away when I switched to Ubuntu, oddly enough.  My
> guess is there's some specific font package causing problems, but I
> haven't been able to figure out which one.  If you have two machines
> with the same Ubuntu release, one of which works and the other of
> which doesn't, it would be interesting to see the output of "dpkg
> --get-selections" for both machines.
>
> --
> David Brodbeck
> System Administrator, Linguistics
> University of Washington