hpux font server connection error

[chad_c]

Hi. We are attempting to connect an HPUX workstation to our HPUX11.11 font server. We get the following:

xset: bad font path element (#77), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffdfffdfe5ef
ffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 65535
Font Path:
/home/txcchambers-u/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/home/txcchambers-u/.gnome2/share/fonts,/usr/lib/j2re1.4-sun/lib/fonts/
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
File paths:
Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules
Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Can any shed some light on this?

Regards,
Chad

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

- what was the 'xset' commandline?
- is the fontserver really running at the reomte host?

mfG Peter

[chad_c]

THanks for the response Peter.

We have verified the xfont server is running. We even stopped and restarted.

The xset command we are running is:

xset fp+ tcp/10.5.26.51:7000
xset -q

NOTE: this has worked in the past, but for some reason it no longer works.

Can your or anyone shed some light?

Regards,
Chad

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

is it possible, there is a firewall between the client and the font server host?
Try something like this on the client:
telnet 10.5.26.51 7000

and look, if you get connected.

mfG Peter

[Alex Glennie]

Can you from the workstation terminal run xset -q and post output.

somethings to look at :

Try an nslookup of the ip address for the 11.11 font server ?

Replace ip with corresponding entry in /etc/hosts file < if not there add it>

edit nsswitch.conf to look at hosts file first prior to going to dns (for test purposes only).

result ?

[chad_c]

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