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

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Tue Jul 15 15:42:43 EDT 2008


No problem

FYI on the FC 6 box where I have lesstif - I believe it was the
libXm.so.2.0.1 that was the important one.  (The other is a slink to
it.)

rpm -q lesstif
lesstif-0.95.0-15.fc6

rpm -ql lesstif
/usr/lib/libDtPrint.so.1
/usr/lib/libDtPrint.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libMrm.so.2
/usr/lib/libMrm.so.2.0.1
/usr/lib/libUil.so.2
/usr/lib/libUil.so.2.0.1
/usr/lib/libXm.so.2
/usr/lib/libXm.so.2.0.1
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/BUG-REPORTING
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/README
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/ReleaseNotes.html
/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.95.0/ReleaseNotes.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/lesstif.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/VirtualBindings.5.gz

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Pete
Hardie
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:11 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] issue with fonts, Fedora 8, Solaris application

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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