[gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

[José Romildo Malaquias]

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