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