[MINC-users] xdisp problem addendum

[Patrick Bermudez]

Thanks for the suggestions Andrew.  None of those worked out but they
did arouse a suspicion that I had confirmed yesterday.  It turns out
that the failures have to do with remote X11 display.  xdisp works
fine when run locally but falls over with the font complaint when
using certain X servers under windows.  Remote display from most other
Linux systems and with OS X 's X11 seems to work fine.  This is kind
of a dumb reason for a program to fall over but I very much doubt
xdisp source code will ever be modified at this point.  I just thought
I'd post the feedback in case anyone else had this problem.  But while
on the topic, postf seg faults on remote display from any platform.
Anyone know about that?  Thanks.  Cheers.

Patrick


> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:29:27 -0400
> From: Patrick Bermudez <patrick at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
> Subject: [MINC-users] xdisp problem
> To: minc-users at bic.mni.mcgill.ca
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> Dear citizens of MINCdom,
>
> I have sucessfully compiled xdisp on two ubuntu hardy systems, one
> 32-bit and the other 64-bit.  xdisp runs well on the 32-bit system but
> on the 64-bit system I get the following complaint:
>
> Font -Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not exist
> Font -*-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not exist
> Font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not exist
> Font -Adobe-Times-Bold-I-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not exist
> Font 12x24 does not exist
> font 3 has not been loaded
> font 4 has not been loaded
> font 7 has not been loaded
> font 7 has not been loaded
> font 3 has not been loaded
> xdisp: couldn't open 'olgyph-12' font
>
> I have noticed this error on other systems (including some of the
> McBIC boxes).  As far as I can tell, I have the same xfonts installed
> on both setups.  Does anyone know a solution/workaround for this?
> Thanking you muchly in advance.  Cheers.
>
> Patrick
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:45:08 +1100
> From: Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MINC-users] xdisp problem
> To: MINC users mailing list <minc-users at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
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> Hi Patrick,
>
> Have you messed with the xorg.conf on either of the machines?  The
> font path changed from "/usr/share/X11/fonts/..." to
> "/usr/share/fonts/X11/..." a yonk ago and perhaps this is biting you.
>
> Either that or try this:
>
>   # apt-get install xfs xfstt