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

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 15:47:40 EDT 2008


2008/7/15 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Splash one - I installed the lesstif packages, and the UIs remain up.

Thanks to all!


>
> 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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