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

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 15:29:00 EDT 2008


I'll bet that is the solution! I just checked my systems and they have
lesstif installed. I have no access issues with other systems.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > 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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