Openwindows doesn't work on new install of 4.1.1
Dan Davison
davison at menudo.uh.edu
Fri May 24 04:47:00 AEST 1991
I asked:
>I just installed 4.1.1 on my Sun-3/80, 2x104 MB disk, 8MB memory. When I
>try to use Openwindows, I get dumped back to the shell prompt with some
>strange error messages. If you've seen something like this or know how to
>fix it, I would appreciate hearing from you.
> [...]
>XNeWS: can't find fonts
> [...]
> ld.so: libX11.so.4: not found
>Which is true, it's libX11.so.1 in /usr/openwin/lib.
Thanks to all who replied. Strangely, it wasn't the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or
FONT_PATH: it's a bad message! The install didn't run a program called
bldfamily, so /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/Family.list was never created. It is
*that* missing file responsible for the "can't find fonts" message.
Many thanks to Josh Siegel at Sun who headed right for that file. I
*think* that file wasn't made or put on the disk because I didn't install
the full "extra fonts" from the OS distribution. I suspect the list gets
made somewhere during the installation of the full font set.
dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of
Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison at uh.edu/DAVISON at UHOU
More information about the Comp.sys.sun
mailing list