You would think installing via yum would handle dependencies, but perhaps fonts are not managed like dependencies.....
Anyway, I installed tightvnc to test out its IPv6 support.
Installed ok (after I erased regular vnc). But when I tried to start it, I got 5 warnings about:
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' not found - ignoring (then the same message for Speedo, Type1, 75dpi, and 100dpi).
Then a fatel server error about: could not open default fount 'fixed'
So I looked in the repos (curtesy of yumex) and did find a few 75dpi a 100dpi fonts, but there seemed to be a lot of these two. I installed a ocuple of them and tried again. Got the same errors.
So how do I fix this one?
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
You would think installing via yum would handle dependencies, but perhaps fonts are not managed like dependencies.....
Well, they can be, but not unless the packager does so.
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 14:53, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
From the path, I'm assuming you are using CentOS 4, since on CentOS 5
the fonts are located under /usr/share/X11/fonts instead.
On an installation of CentOS 4 I have, all the files under that directory belong to the "fonts-xorg-base" package, so you might try starting with that one. Looking at fonts.alias inside misc, I believe the name "fixed" is going to be aliased to a font in that directory, so this should fix your problem.
If that still does not fix your problem, then try installing "fonts-xorg-100dpi" and "fonts-xorg-75dpi" as well.
HTH, Filipe
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 22:42, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
No. This is Centos 5! So perhaps there is an issue with tightVNC????
Yes, you may try to create symbolic links to have the fonts on the other path. I'm not an expert on X11 here, but I don't think applications would have font paths hardcoded. It might be worth the try though. Where did you install TightVNC from? RPMforge/DAG has an RPM for it (version 1.3.9-3.el5.rf for CentOS 5).
I only have xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi and xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi installed here, and I never had problems with fonts.
ISO8859-1 is a character set also known as Latin-1, it has fonts for most western alphabets.
ISO8859-14 and ISO8859-15 are character sets with special characters for (I believe) easter European countries. I believe one of those is the same as Latin-1 but with an extra Euro sign, for example. I don't think you need those, at least not to run TightVNC. Your problem is probably not there.
HTH, Filipe
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Just great. Now I get to figure this out... :('
So where is the font paths coming from messed up? I note that I do not have OpenOffice installed on this system. Perhaps that might make a difference....
Where did you install TightVNC from? RPMforge/DAG has an RPM for it (version 1.3.9-3.el5.rf for CentOS 5).
Yes. That is what I have and where I got it.
I have all of these :)
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
7100 I think . . .
grep xfs /etc/services xfs 7100/tcp # X font server
. . yes
I remember playing games with Matlab to get it to find it's own fonts. I think it went something like:
mkdir <fontdir> cp fonts* <fontdir> mkfontdir <fontdir> Add <fontdir> to /etc/X11/fs/config
Like you say, maybe just a link to /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc would do the trick.
Perhaps a vnc/X startup script somewhere is hardcoded?
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Toby Bluhm tkb@midwestinstruments.com wrote:
Robert, I noticed the same thing, so what I did is the following:
cd /usr/X11R6/; mkdir lib; cd lib; ln -s /usr/share/X11 .
Now try it. Seems like the repository from which I got TightVNC has issues in directory compatibility.... but at least I got it working.
I didn't have a misc fonts directory, and my $HOME/.vnc/xtartup has: #!/bin/sh
# Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
If that still doesn't work, I'll post the /etc/init.d/vncserver script that works for me (possibly from an older install of tightvnc - 1.2.9 I believe).
If there's a more elegant solution, someone please let us know! :-)
-Rob
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 16:42, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
vncserver: The USER environment variable is not set.
So, is it set or not?
It's usually set by /etc/profile, so if it's not set, that might indicate you have an issue with your setup.
HTH, Filipe
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Filipe Brandenburger filbranden@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, looking at my /etc/profile I see the following:
if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then USER="`id -un`" LOGNAME=$USER MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER" fi
Is there anything else needed to help Robert debug this? I have this working on CentOS 5.2 and "Xvnc -version" shows: Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
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