Solaris X app crashes with Cygwin/X

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've got an application that runs on Solaris, and ever since the upgrade 
> to X.Org 6.8.0 (now 6.8.1), it crashes if I try to start it. The weird 
> thing is, that if I do 'XWin :1 -query remotehost' and start the app in 
> that screen, it runs fine. I.e. under the CDE environment there's no 
> problems.
> 
> Does anybody have any hints on how to debug this?
> 
> I'm running a locally compiled version of openbox as window manager (on 
> :0.0). I'll see if recompiling that helps (tomorrow though).

Most likely this is because of missing fonts. Some Solris tools do not check
if the queried font was found, they simply assume it is there and run into 
a null pointer. 

Check the FAQ about Solaris and fonts. The method of setting the font path 
does apply to this condition too.

bye
	ago
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