You may have to check your X11 settings …
There are these rather ancient LinuxQuestions entries: <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/xfig-aborts-because-no-fontset-found-unable-to-load-any-usable-fontset-883553/> <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/xfig-unable-to-load-font-set-927226/> but, they mention “~/.Xdefaults” which, is no longer actual …
You may have to refer to this ArchLinux entry: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources>.
On checking the contents of the xfig package it seems that, the “/usr/lib64/X11/xfig/” directory is no longer used … the directory is now “/usr/share/xfig”.
- Are you certain that, you don’t have any custom X11 settings pointing to the older directories which, are no longer being used?