SUMMARY: font error

Hi everyone,

My thanks goes to Nicolas Dorfsman for his response to my question. Although
not exactly the same problem, his suggestion helped me solve the problem.
What I did was edit /etc/TIMEZONE, which is really a link to
/etc/default/init, and changed the occurances of en_US.ISO8859-15 to
en_US.ISO8859-1. Once I rebooted everything worked fine on the system.

Below is Nicolas's response and after that, my original question.

-Gary

-----Original Message-----

Subject: Re: font error


    Hi,

    Not sure it could help,  but I solved a fint problem on Solaris 7 with
workaround found in bug 4257714 (changing fr.xxx by fr in /etc/default/init)
:

DESCRIPTION :
With Solaris 7 about option Euro required during installation, i found a
problem



 Warning and no refresh running Xapplications via telnet :

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
system-medium-r-normal-m*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning:
    Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
    Class: XmRendition
    Conversion failed.  Cannot load font.
SUMMARY:
The problem have a resolution if in file /etc/TIMEZONE if we change
variables

from LC_XXXXXXX=it.ISO8859-15   to  LC_XXXXXXX=it


    Nicolas Dorfsman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Richardson" <grichardson@watercove.com>
To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:02 PM
Subject: font error


> Hi all,
>
> One of the users here ran into a strange problem that's really stumped me.
> Here's what the deal is:
>
> He's sitting in front of an Ultra 10 that's running Solaris 8. He's logged
> in via CDE. He telnets/rlogin to a Netra 20 running Solaris 8. In his bash
> shell he sets the DISPLAY back to the Ultra 10. He runs his X application
> (in this case, it's oracle's dbassist program). In the window he gets the
> following errors:
>
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
> system-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-
> *-*-*-*" to type FontSet
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
> system-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-
> *-*-*-*" to type FontList
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
> system-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-
> *-*-*-*:" to type FontList
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
> user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-
> *-*-*" to type FontSet
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
> user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-
> *-*-*" to type FontList
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
> user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-
> *-*-*:" to type FontList
>
>
> And when the window comes up the fonts are so messed up (or missing)  you
> can't understand what's in the window.
>
> I duplicated this problem by sitting in front of two other Sun machines
(one
> running Solaris 7, another running Solaris 8) and got the same errors.
>
> Now for something odd. I go back to my office, sit in front of my PC, fire
> up Exceed, get myself a CDE login screen to the three machines mentioned
> above (NOT the Netra 20), login, then telnet/rlogin to the Netra 20, set
the
> DISPLAY back to my Exceed session, fire up the X app,  and DO NOT get the
> errors. Hmmmm.
>
> Next I set up Exceed to give me a login screen to the Netra 20. I notice
> right off that the font in the CDE login screen looks weird (kinda looks
> like small Courier to me). I log in to the Netra 20, run the app, and it
> comes up, however the font is REALLY tiny. I log back out, then click on
the
> OPTIONS --> LANGUAGE menu in the CDE login screen. It says that the
language
> is set to en_US.ISO8859-15-USA (Euro). Hmm, doesn't seem right. I check
> another Netra 20 that I had installed at the same time. It's set to
> en_US.ISO8859-1--USA.
>
> So I go back and Exceed to the troubled Netra 20, get the CDE login
screen,
> change the language to en_US.ISO8859-1--USA and login. Everything works
and
> looks great in that Exceed session.
>
> Ok, after all that, I guess I have a bunch of questions. First, what's
> causing those errors? Second, related to the first question, is the
language
> setting that I see in the login screen the cause of this problem? Is that
a
> default setting somewhere within the X server? If so, how do I go about
> changing it? Does that default setting affect all users running X apps on
> that machine, or just limited to people logging in via a CDE login screen?
> How comes the X app works while using Exceed to connect to the system, but
> not when I'm sitting at a Sun console, rlogin/telneted to the Netra 20?
How
> is Exceed affecting and/or fixing this issue?
>
> Sorry, I know that's a bunch of questions. :-)
>
> BTW, I'm running Exceed 6.2, single window mode, Communication setting set
> to XDMCP-query.
>
> My apologies if I'm either unclear or running in circles with my above
> explanation and all those questions. I've been going in circles myself
> trying to figure this problem out.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help/advice. If possible, please send some
tylenol
> in your email to help me with my headache. :-)
>
> -Gary
>
> Gary Richardson
> Sr. Unix Administrator
> WaterCove Networks, Inc.
> Email:   grichardson@watercove.com
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