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
