Solaris 8/07 and VMware tools

[jbmurphy]

I just installed Solaris 8/07 on Vmware fusion. After I add the VMWare tools, whenever I run smc or updatemanager, I recieve:

Warning: Cannot convert string \

"-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal---140---p--iso8859-1" \

to type FontStruct

warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font

Warning:

Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING

Class: XmRendition

Conversion failed. Cannot load font.

Java Accessibility Bridge for GNOME loaded.

java/langNullPointerException

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[nick_from_calga]

I too received the same error using Solaris 8/07 on VMWare Fusion. I was able to resolve it by setting the fontpath using the following command:

xset fp+ /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TTbitmaps

And then type smc, see if that helps.

Nick

[gsyoungblood]

The problem seems to be the result of the vmware tools modifications to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Change the FontPath lines in the Files section (Section "Files") to:

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"

FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"

FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/"

FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

Restart X after you make this change.

The FontPath above is a combination of the Solaris .xorg.conf and the commented out xorg.conf from vmware.

[kspades]

Just jumping in to let you guys know that the above solution works. Im using Solaris 10u4 on VI3 3.0.2. Pay special attention to the paths /usr/X11 and /usr/X11R6...the latter did not exist on my system

Thanks to poster!