Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 73419
Nedit complains about "FONTLIST" under KDE3
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:20 EDT
Description of Problem: When running with KDE3, every time you start 'nedit' it issues a warning message: "Cannot convert string "FONTLIST" to type FontStruct" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.2-2 How Reproducible: Consistently Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in using KDE3 2. run "nedit" from a terminal window Actual Results: The message "Cannot convert string "FONTLIST" to type FontStruct" is displayed, and then the nedit window appears. Expected Results: The nedit window should appear with no warning message.
Does this still happen with Red Hat Linux 8.0?
We believe this to be a bug in KDE. See: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54561 NEdit 5.4 will have a workaround where it will silently ignore this situation. See: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=561659&group_id=11005&atid=111005
launching nedit over ssh. ssh from a Red Hat Linux 9 system to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 system and run nedit. The following error messages are logged in the background nedit fails to function correctly (there is no way to select a file without the extra font errors occuring regardless of font selection in the preferences/default settings tab: $ nedit Cannot convert string "fixed" to type FontStruct Name: Text Class: XmTextField Character '\162' not supported in font. Discarded. Name: Text Class: XmTextField Character '\143' not supported in font. Discarded. After further investigation: error message is given in line 4226/4233 approx of nedit source: preferences.c This points to the Motif XMText widget library called in the beginning of the code as: Xm/Text.h is this a result of incompatible motif variants? or simply a missing fixed font alias or font. version info: rh9 openmotif-2.2.2-14 RHEL AS 3 openmotif21-2.1.30-8 and openmotif-2.2.2-16 an ssh connection from the same RHL 9 to an RHEL AS2.1 machine and then running nedit version nedit-5.1.1-10 with openmotif versions: RHL 9 openmotif-2.2.2-14 RHEL AS2.1 openmotif version openmotif-2.1.30-11 shows no font errors and works fine. also selecting the same 'known good' font that this nedit session is using for the previous rhl to rhel3 connection using the command: nedit -font '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*' does not prevent the font errors. Kind regards Roger Nunn
I should also add that this was all done in a gnome desktop environment.
I don't think comment 3 is the same bug. This bug is the literal word FONTLIST is being insterted into the resource database. This other bug seems to be a problem with the default font. Note that OpenMotif 2.2 is alpha-quality software, and the NEdit developers do not support it at this time. It has way too many fatal bugs that we have not been able to work around. We suggest linking with OpenMotif 2.1.30 and no later.
Fixed in rawhide in rpm openmotif-2.2.3-3 or newer.