Ah, well then since bat is compiled against xorg I suppose anything could happen when trying to use it in this manner.
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:28 +0300, Alex Ehrlich wrote: > Install CentOS without X. > Install an X server (Xming in my case, it's free, but there are some > others, Exceed is the best known one probably) on a Windows machine (my > favorite laptop). > Connect from Windows to CentOS by PuTTY via SSH with X11 forward; set > "DISPLAY=ip_of_the_machine_running_Xming:0; export DISPLAY". > Start the X server on the Windows machine. > (There might be some mess with security of the X server but as I run > everything on my home LAN I just don't bother with it). > All this "X server on Windows" stuff and how to make it work is pretty > well explained on the xming page > (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/). > Start any X program on the Linux machine in the PuTTY SSH session and it > shall display on the Windows machine (I installed xterm just for test > purposes and it worked fine). > So far so good. > Now the problem with BAT is that it crashes on startup in the > environment where xterm works fine. There are no font dependencies > listed in it (ldd). I had to google pretty much to find that installing > the fonts solves the problem, and indeed it does. *Maybe* some other > font package would be sufficient, I never tried. > There was another suggestion how to make this work: "install X server on > the Linux machine", but this is a little bit overkill. I hope you agree > that CentOS (ok, RHEL) in its "minimum" configuration (i.e. *without* X) > is a pretty popular one for Linux servers today; actually I see no good > reason to install X on the server if you can avoid it and you won't sit > in front of it physically, and the less you have installed on a *server* > the better it works and the more secure it is. > > Alex > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:42:29 Alex Ehrlich wrote: > > > >> Well, > >> > >> For me it looks like this: I installed "minimal" CentOS 5.2 (i.e. > >> without X > >> > > > > Hmmm. Bat is a GUI program so it needs X to run, which is probably more or > > less implicit with most GUI apps on Linux distros. > > > > > >> -- I use Xming on Windows instead). > >> When I run BAT I get a segfault at startup. When I install the fonts BAT > >> starts and runs fine. Maybe it "attempts to load the fonts dynamically" > >> (sorry for terminology, I am mostly a Windows guy :-). > >> > > > > I don't quite understand how you can make bat work (after installing the > > fonts). Can you explain a bit more? > > > > Kern > > > > > >> Alex > >> > >> Scott Barninger wrote: > >> > >>> Hello Alex, > >>> > >>> I am the maintainer of the spec file even though Felix is kind enough to > >>> supply the EL5 binaries. I do not understand how this could be a > >>> dependency. On my SuSE-11.0 system I do not have this font installed and > >>> have no issues. Nor is this indicated as a dependency when ldd is run > >>> over the binary. Can anyone else confirm this? > >>> > >>> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:41 +0300, Alex Ehrlich wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello FSchwarz, > >>>> > >>>> If you build RHEL 5.x packages (32) for 2.4.2 then please add the > >>>> bitstream-vera-fonts package to the list of dependencies for BAT. > >>>> Currently BAT fails with a segfault when the fonts are not installed, > >>>> and this is the case at least on CentOS 5.2 with "minimal installation". > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Alex > >>>> > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>> - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > >>>> challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > >>>> win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > >>>> anywhere in the world > >>>> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Bacula-devel mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel > >>>> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > >> challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > >> great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere > >> in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bacula-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel > >> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
