[Tex/LaTex] Fontawesome won’t render correctly while working on a moderncv

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I was working on my résumé using the moderncv template, when an odd error concerning fontawesome came up (I'll paste only the last lines of the log): 

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `U/fontawesometwo/m/sl' undefined
(Font) using `U/fontawesometwo/m/n' instead on input line 94.
LaTeX Font Info: Try loading font information for OMS+lmr on input line 94.
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\lm\omslmr.fd"
File: omslmr.fd 2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
)
LaTeX Font Info: Font shape `OMS/lmr/m/sl' in size  not available
(Font) Font shape `OMS/lmsy/m/n' tried instead on input line 94.
Package Fancyhdr Warning: \footskip is too small (30.0pt):
Make it at least 51.952pt.
We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.
[1
{C:/ProgramData/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}]
LaTeX Font Info: External font `lmex10' loaded for size
(Font)  on input line 110.
LaTeX Font Info: External font `lmex10' loaded for size
(Font)  on input line 110.
LaTeX Font Info: External font `lmex10' loaded for size
(Font)  on input line 110.
Package Fancyhdr Warning: \footskip is too small (30.0pt):
Make it at least 51.952pt.
We now make it that large for the rest of the document.
This may cause the page layout to be inconsistent, however.
[2]
Package atveryend Info: Empty hook `BeforeClearDocument' on input line 162.
Package atveryend Info: Empty hook `AfterLastShipout' on input line 162.
(C:\Users\lmdam\Desktop\moderncv\cv.aux)
Package atveryend Info: Executing hook `AtVeryEndDocument' on input line 162.
Package atveryend Info: Executing hook `AtEndAfterFileList' on input line 162.
Package rerunfilecheck Warning: File `cv.out' has changed.
(rerunfilecheck) Rerun to get outlines right
(rerunfilecheck) or use package `bookmark'.
Package rerunfilecheck Info: Checksums for `cv.out':
(rerunfilecheck) Before: 
(rerunfilecheck) After: 91D9B1A013BDBCD69BFACF90E673B69C;1735.
LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.
)
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
19772 strings out of 493921
326644 string characters out of 3144876
404671 words of memory out of 3000000
22816 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
73377 words of font info for 75 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
841 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
48i,21n,49p,10379b,425s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file FontAwesome--fontawesometwo): Font FontAwesome--f
ontawesometwo at 600 not found
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

I don't really know what it means, but it seems to me that the problem is related to some "exotic" character. The only one I can spot on line 94 of my .tex file is the š.

I tried removing the character, but the error won't go away. Also, this is not the first draft of my cv, and the error had never happened before. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I just moved to Windows 10, but in any case I hope there's a solution to it.

Best Answer

I had the same problem with FontAwesome and struggled a lot with my new Windows 10 Installation, MiKTeX 2.9 and TexStudio. I also tried other things like running initexmf --mkmaps and initexmf --update-fndb or reinstalling MiKTeX or reinstalling the packages using MPM which didn't help me.

Here is what worked:

miktex-makepk: PK font Alegreya-Regular-lf-t1--base could not be created

I replaced the Map Alegreya.map statement in that post with Map FontAwesome.map and then ran C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\updmap.exe in an admin console (don't know if it's relevant). After that, my file compiled fine using pdflatex.

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