[noob] ReadFontDir Can't Open Directory..

[Duane Clark]

fbn at dandy.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I browsed the archives for this, but haven't found anything new enough to
> be useful. When I run Wine, I get:
> 
> err:font:ReadFontDir Can't open directory "/usr/local/wine/Windows/Fonts"
> wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
> 
> 
> If I make a dir for /usr/local/wine/Windows/Fonts, I get just the
> wine" Unhandled exception, starting debugger... msg repeating until I kill
> the process. I've run wine with -debugmsg +all > error.log 2>&1 and looked
> through the log, but don't see enough of a clue to figure this out.

Well, I guess /usr/local/wine is configured as drive C: ? Hopefully that 
won't cause problems.

In any case, normally Wine would expect some TrueType fonts in 
C:\Windows\Fonts. If you have access to a Windows machine, copy them 
from there. Also, look here for some:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/