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I'm having a problem with Emacs when I SSH from my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop to another Linux machine. FWIW, I believe the remote machine is using SUSE Enterprise Server 10 SP2, which is possibly quite old. I connect using ssh -X <server>. When I run Emacs, I get the error messages

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

and Emacs is full of boxes instead of text characters, as shown below.

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I've tried flushing my local font cache with sudo fc-cache -f -v but that didn't help. Ideas? Thanks in advance!

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I found that this solved my emacs problem

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1896584

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