Running X applications like xterm displays: Cannot convert string to type FontStruct

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Issue

  • Below message is seen while running xterm from GUI session
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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