core dump trying to run wdb debugger

[Chris De Angelis]

I'm trying to run the wdb debugger on my HP-UX 11.00 system for the first time, with the GUI. I am trying to do this by sending the display to a Sun workstation (running Solaris 8) as I have no HP workstation and the HP server just has the ugly console.

I have version 2.0 of wdb on this system, which I know is not the latest, but at the moment, I just want to run this somehow.

What I am getting is the following:
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Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type Fon
tSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Warning:
Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
Class: XmRendition
Conversion failed. Cannot load font.

Warning:
Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
Class: XmRendition
Conversion failed. Cannot load font.

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontS
et
Error: XtCreatePopupShell requires non-NULL parent

(...goes on with this one about a million times before dumping core:)

Warning:
Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
Class: XmRendition
Conversion failed. Cannot load font.
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Do I need to upgrade the Motif libraries on one of the two systems or something like that? If you have an idea, thanks a lot for sharing it!

[Hartmut Lang]

Your SUN does not have the FontSet installed wdb wants to use.

- install new Fonts on the SUN
or
- change x-resources for wdb to use another fontSet

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

Explanation : CDE includes a small set of fonts and font aliases which are not
part of the standard MIT X distribution. In order for CDE to
function correctly, these fonts must be made available to
X-servers (X-Terminals) displaying CDE etc .... PC's have the same problem and
Suns implementation of CDE and fonts is vendor specific and not exactly the same as
on hpux.

Resolution : On the hpux system running opc process do the following :


1 - The font server needs to be configured to include the CDE
fonts in its catalog

EDIT: /etc/X11/fs/config

Append ",/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C" to the end of the
"catalogue = ..." line

EDIT: /etc/rc.config.d/xfs

Set the following variable: "RUN_X_FONT_SERVER=1"

EXECUTE: /sbin/init.d/xfs start

If the font-server is already running, kill it and
restart it.

2 - Force CDE to add the font-server to the X-Server font-path
by editing the Xsetup file. (NOTE: This steps REQUIRES
the IP address of the CDE session server. You can get
this information by running: nslookup `hostname`.)

COPY: /usr/dt/config/Xsetup to /etc/dt/config/Xsetup
EDIT: /etc/dt/config/Xsetup

Add the following line to /etc/dt/config/Xsetup replacing
"IPADDRESS" with the IP address of the server as returned
from "nslookup `hostname`":

$XDIR/xset fp+ tcp/IPADDRESS:7000 1>/dev/null

We now need to tell remote client to use this : log onto the solaris system and from within a dtterm window type : xset fp+ tcp/IPADDRESS:7000

you can add this into the users .profile or similar to make permanent ?