Re: Solaris/Sparc package: no characters

Maurizio Codogno (mau@beatles.cselt.it)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:46:58 +0200 (MET DST)


" > I tried to install the pkg for solaris: but when I run it I
" > got a dozen or so of warnings "shmat failed", and then no character
" > appears in the window, just small red waves (curiously, strikeout and
" > underscore do work!)

"
" That's odd... the shmat messages have to do with shared memory (which
" GTK tries to use for faster display; your X server might not support
" it).

Yup, I thought it was unrelated but it did not hurt to add it.

" If the red squiggles are showing up, it means the fonts are found and
" the metrics are good (since the squiggles are drawn to the length of
" a misspelled word). I'm not intimately familiar with the Sun X servers,
" but they do include some PostScript extensions.

It's rather strange, since I am using CDE but commands like
makepsres are under /usr/openwin .

I looked under /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts and I found fonts.dir
(first lines:

64
a010013l.pfa -AbiSource-Arial-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

- they seem correct) and PSres.upr . But there is still something
odd: if I run mkfontdir the file fonts.dir is deleted, since it
recognises just .pcf, .snf and .bdf files.

I am quite confident that it is a trivial problem - maybe there is some
Solaris user here who can help me.

ciao, .mau.

UPDATE: I tried to use OpenWindows instead of CDE, and fonts appeared
correctly. Then I restarted CDE... and fonts appeared there too!!

Trouble is, I am sure that I restarted CDE after running makepsres,
without result :-(

ciao, .mau.



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