[ale] issue with fonts, Fedora 8, Solaris application

[Pete Hardie]

2008/7/15 Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>:
> Actually some programs (Oracle stuff for example) requires a Motif library
> (the particular one escapes me at the moment).   Motif ships with RHEL but
> not Fedora.  However, Lesstif is provided for Fedora and provides the same
> library.   We were able to get Oracle R12 going using Lesstif on Fedora.
>
>
>
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Kinney
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:12 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] issue with fonts, Fedora 8, Solaris application
>
>
>
> Out on a limb here, but I bet your box is lacking the motif stuff. It's been
> not installed by default for a while in the Linux world but Solaris still
> uses it. Poke around your package manager for motif (there used to be a
> mootif in linux). It will likely be a set of libs.

Sounds like a lead.  Certainly better than anything Google found for
me.  Thanks!

>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running into an X error when I ssh to a (work) solaris box and run
> an app remotely.  I try to
> open a window with some Motif graphics constructs and get this:
>
> Error: XRT/table: XmFontListInitFontContext failed, bad fontList
>
>
>
> Any pointers woudl be appreciated,
>
> TIA,
>
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