Re: [PLUG] puzzling Motif(?) font(?) problem

On 3/28/06, bergman@merctech.com <bergman@merctech.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm experiencing what I believe are problems with Motif. The symptoms are
that certain apps no longer display any text--either on menus, widgets,
or within the body of the application. Some example apps are grok (from
xmbase-grok, a Motif front-end to a flat file database system), and
winsetup (from Win4Lin, the admin GUI to a commercial Windows-under-Linux
package).

All other GUI access and X applications seem fine.  Other applications
that use Motif (for example xpdf, ddd) work fine. I can't trace the appearance
of the problem to a particular upgrade, but the applications used to work in
the past...

The affected apps seem to run fine--no core dumps, strace doesn't reveal
any problems, and there are no Xorg.0.log or .xsession-errors messages
that seem relevent. It's possible to run the apps, but it must be done
"blindly", ie., drop-down menus work, buttons work, etc., but there's
no text displayed.

I've tried forcibly installing lesstif-0.94.4-1.i586 over the motif
packages--the install works, but has no affect on the problem.

I've tried recompiling grok--the build goes fine, the executable runs, but the
symptoms are the same (no text, but it seems to run fine).

Any suggestions for a fix, or for how to debug this problem further?

I can provide strace output and screen shots (off the list), but the apps
appear to work--there is no core dump or exit with an error condition,
but the text is not visible.

Thanks,

Mark

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Evironment:
               FC4 (kept current with yum)
               kernel 2.6.9
               X packages:
                       fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-base-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi-6.8.2-1
                       fonts-xorg-truetype-6.8.2-1
                       openmotif21-2.1.30
                       openmotif-2.2.3-10.FC4.1
                       openmotif-devel-2.2.3-10.FC4.1
                       xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-doc-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-truetype-fonts-6.7.0-14
                       xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
                       xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2

ldd /usr/bin/grok
       linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
       libXm.so.3 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3 (0xb7d7a000)
       libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4d1e1000)
       libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4d093000)
       libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x44de8000)
       libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x44cbd000)
       libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4d552000)
       libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4d196000)
       libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4d17a000)
       libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4d169000)
       libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x4d60a000)
       libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x44e0f000)
       /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x44c9f000)

Log entries from ~/.xsession-errors when the apps are closed:
       X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
                Major opcode:  19
                Minor opcode:  0
                Resource id:  0x4a00005
       X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
                Major opcode:  19
                Minor opcode:  0
                Resource id:  0x4800005

       (note: except for changes in the "Resource id" field, these messages
       are the same when a well-behaving app, such as xpdf, is also closed
       the same way, so I don't believe they are relevent)

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