font server type1 not starting

[Bernward]

when starting the xfs with default configuration I get the errors:

xfs error: Warning: Rasterizer "/usr/lib/X11/fs/ufstrast.sl" could not be loaded: Invalid argument

xfs error: Warning: Rasterizer "/usr/lib/X11/fs/iforast.sl" could not be loaded: Invalid argument

But I can't get any information about paarmeters for these rasterizers

[Dennis Handly]

>xfs error: Warning: Rasterizer "/usr/lib/X11/fs/ufstrast.sl" could not be loaded: Invalid argument

This is most likely EINVAL, an argument to a syscall.  You might be able to use tusc(1m) to track it down.

[ranganath ramachandra]

The "could not be loaded" in the message seems to imply that xfs is trying to explicitly load this shared library (".sl").
First, check with the "file" command whether the shared library file exists and is of the right architecture (PA-RISC or IA64) and bit width (32-bit or 64-bit) - they should all match the xfs executable.  If there is a mismatch, you need to fix that.

I could find this file only on a PA-RISC system.

[ ranga ] $ file /usr/lib/X11/fs/ufstrast.sl
/usr/lib/X11/fs/ufstrast.sl:    PA-RISC1.1 shared library -not stripped
[ ranga ] $ file /usr/bin/X11/xfs
/usr/bin/X11/xfs:       PA-RISC1.1 shared executable dynamically linked -not stripped dynamically linked

On HP-UX, a shared library can be loaded explicitly using either dlopen(3C) or shl_load(3X).

[ ranga ] $ ldd -y,shl_load /usr/bin/X11/xfs
  :
  shl_load (code) : needed by /usr/bin/X11/xfs; found in /usr/lib/libdld.2

No such "needed" found for dlopen, though.
So, looking at the shl_load(3X) man page:

[EINVAL]       The specified handle or index is not valid or an
               attempt was made to load a library at an invalid
               address.

That does not look helpful - shl_load does not need handle or index to be specified. Perhaps the man page does not cover all the cases for which shl_load would return EINVAL; shl_load will leave the value of errno as set by the last system call. So, as Dennis suggests the next step is to identify which system call set errno to EINVAL.

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