Bug 3315

Summary: 6.8 breaks all xview/openlook apps (cannot load fonts)
Product: xorg Reporter: Paul Raines <raines>
Component: App/xfsAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: high    
Version: 6.8.1   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Paul Raines 2005-05-17 08:36:11 UTC 
xview/OpenLook applications are unable to run with the X server in 6.8.1-23.EL
on RHEL4.  Whether you compile the xview package locally on the RHEL4 box
and run apps from it, or you ssh to a Solaris box and run something from
/usr/openwin/bin, one always gets:

XView warning: Cannot load font set
'-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)
XView warning: Unable to open default font set
XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: localhost:13.0 (Server
package)

If one goes to a Fedora Core 2 box with xorg-x11 6.7.0 it works fine.
I have even succeeded in downgrading a RHEL4 box to 6.7.0 and it then works.

I tried bypassing xfs on the RHEL4 box by doing a 'xset fp=' to the actual
directories rather than the font server.  This made no difference.

I then went to a FedoreCore2 box I still had running.  I modified 
/etc/init.d/xfs and /etc/X11/fs/config to have the server run on tcp port 7100.  
THen went back to the RHEL4 box and do a 'xset fp= tcp/fc2box:7100'.  Now the 
xview apps run with no font errors.  Even ones compiled locally on the RHEL4 
box.

So this definitely has something to do with a change in font handling between
xorg-x11 6.7 and 6.8.  But may not xfs specific since bypassing the server to 
have the X server go direct to the directories did not help.
Comment 1 Paul Raines 2005-05-17 08:41:43 UTC 
That last sentence should have been:

  But may not be xfs specific since bypassing xfs so
  the X server goes direct to the directories did not help.
Comment 2 Alexander Gottwald 2005-05-17 08:52:20 UTC 
How is this bug different from Bug 3313?

>I tried bypassing xfs on the RHEL4 box by doing a 'xset fp=' to the actual
>directories rather than the font server.  This made no difference.

>So this definitely has something to do with a change in font handling between
>xorg-x11 6.7 and 6.8.  But may not xfs specific since bypassing the server to 
>have the X server go direct to the directories did not help.

Are you sure the fonts are actually installed. They were missing in the 6.8.0
and 6.8.1 release
Comment 3 Alexander Gottwald 2005-05-17 09:11:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3313 ***

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