xgammon crashes on start (invalid Font parameter)

[Ferenc Czumbil]

Binary package hint: xgammon

What you expected to happen?
xgammon starts

What happened instead?
xgammon crashes with the following error:
couldn't load doubler dice font, using default, sorry
X Error of failed request: BadFont (invalid Font parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request: 55 (X_CreateGC)
  Resource id in failed request: 0x0
  Serial number of failed request: 132
  Current serial number in output stream: 134

The minimal series of steps necessary to make it happen:
start xgammon

EDIT: This bug also affects Ubuntu 11.04 (natty).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xgammon 0.99.1128-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-0.5-generic 2.6.39-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-0-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 5 19:53:00 2011
SourcePackage: xgammon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[ImChipBrown (chip-westcoastbrowns)]

I had it working on Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Yotam Medini (yotam-medini-gmail)]

Installing xfonts-75dpi solved the problem for me.
Probably it should be added to xgammon dependencies.