hello there,
I am using solaris 10 on my sun sparc ultra 10 box.
I am facing problems to connect to a remote server using the X11
feature of the ssh protocols. This is the error message i when i try
to log on to that server. I do get logged on but i cannot get the
xwindows system to work on my box.
that means i can only use the server in command line mode. Heres the
error i see:

xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax

As far as i can remember i did opt to exclude some optional fonts
while installing solaris. I wonder if its because of that. How do i
get the X11 tunnelling feature to work with it now?

Your replies and comments are welcome.

Regards,
Aijaz Baig.

On Jul 17, 2:38 am, burnout_AS <aijazba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello there,
> I am using solaris 10 on my sun sparc ultra 10 box.
> I am facing problems to connect to a remote server using the X11
> feature of the ssh protocols. This is the error message i when i try
> to log on to that server. I do get logged on but i cannot get the
> xwindows system to work on my box.
> that means i can only use the server in command line mode. Heres the
> error i see:
>
> xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> As far as i can remember i did opt to exclude some optional fonts
> while installing solaris. I wonder if its because of that. How do i
> get the X11 tunnelling feature to work with it now?
>
> Your replies and comments are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Aijaz Baig.

I assume you are using the correct ssh options for the tunnel?  By
chance, does your profile on the remote system change the DISPLAY
environment variable?  What is it set to when you do "echo $DISPLAY"?

Brad

On Jul 19, 7:46 pm, vanos...@cox.net wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2:38 am, burnout_AS <aijazba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > hello there,
> > I am using solaris 10 on my sun sparc ultra 10 box.
> > I am facing problems to connect to a remote server using theX11
> > feature of the ssh protocols. This is the error message i when i try
> > to log on to that server. I do get logged on but i cannot get the
> > xwindows system to work on my box.
> > that means i can only use the server in command line mode. Heres the
> > error i see:
>
> > xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> > xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> > As far as i can remember i did opt to exclude some optional fonts
> > while installing solaris. I wonder if its because of that. How do i
> > get theX11tunnelling feature to work with it now?
>
> > Your replies and comments are welcome.
>
> > Regards,
> > Aijaz Baig.
>
> I assume you are using the correct ssh options for the tunnel?  By
> chance, does your profile on the remote system change the DISPLAY
> environment variable?  What is it set to when you do "echo $DISPLAY"?
>
> Brad

hi brad.
on typin echo $DISPLAY at the terminal i get the following on my
system before the ssh:
:0.0
after doing the ssh when i finally reach the remote machine i tried
the same command on that machine and it gives:
localhost:13.0

Those machines are like thin sun ray clients and i do not have much
information on the kind of server they have but its definately sun for
sure.

And when i try to log on to another remote location, wherein the
servers are linux servers, i just cannot get the connection, its like
after issuing the ssh command, the console screen seems to be stuck or
something.

Please do let me know how to go about fixin this issue(s).

Regards,
Aijaz

burnout_AS <aijazbaig1@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello there,
> I am using solaris 10 on my sun sparc ultra 10 box.
> I am facing problems to connect to a remote server using the X11
> feature of the ssh protocols. This is the error message i when i try
> to log on to that server. I do get logged on but i cannot get the
> xwindows system to work on my box.
> that means i can only use the server in command line mode. Heres the
> error i see:

> xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax

Are you doing any 'xset' command explicitly as part of your X startup
files?  Can you log in as another user?

-- 
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Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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On Jul 23, 10:15 pm, Darren Dunham <ddun...@redwood.taos.com> wrote:
> burnout_AS <aijazba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hello there,
> > I am using solaris 10 on my sun sparc ultra 10 box.
> > I am facing problems to connect to a remote server using the X11
> > feature of thesshprotocols. This is the error message i when i try
> > to log on to that server. I do get logged on but i cannot get the
> > xwindows system to work on my box.
> > that means i can only use the server in command line mode. Heres the
> > error i see:
> > xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> > xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> Are you doing any 'xset' command explicitly as part of your X startup
> files?  Can you log in as another user?
>
> --
> Darren Dunham                                           ddun...@taos.com
> Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
> Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
>          < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. >

Hello darren. Thnks for the reply..im pretty late on my part . Sorry
for that!!..i've been sick lately.

Coming back to the discussion, no i do not use any xset command
explicitly as a part of my X startup file. If there are some settings
because of which it happens automatically, then i may be not be aware
of that.

Would you please let me know how to go about checking those settings.
For your information(if that helps) I can log on to the same accounts
using my linux box but for some reason solaris is giving me errors as
shown above. So that means i can log into both accounts using linux
with X windows available. However as I mentioned previously, the Sun
based server is allowing me access without any X windows accessibility
and the linux based servers are not allowing me access at all it
seems. There seems to be absolutely no activity on the console.

Hope to hear from you guys,

Regards,
Aijaz

On Jul 27, 10:35 am, burnout_AS <aijazba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 10:15 pm, Darren Dunham <ddun...@redwood.taos.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > burnout_AS <aijazba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > hello there,
> > > I am using solaris 10 on my sun sparc ultra 10 box.
> > > I am facing problems to connect to a remote server using theX11
> > > feature of thesshprotocols. This is the error message i when i try
> > > to log on to that server. I do get logged on but i cannot get the
> > > xwindows system to work on my box.
> > > that means i can only use the server in command line mode. Heres the
> > > error i see:
> > > xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
> > >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> > >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> > >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> > > xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
> > >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> > >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> > >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> > Are you doing any 'xset' command explicitly as part of your X startup
> > files?  Can you log in as another user?
>
> > --
> > Darren Dunham                                           ddun...@taos.com
> > Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
> > Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
> >          < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. >
>
> Hello darren. Thnks for the reply..im pretty late on my part . Sorry
> for that!!..i've been sick lately.
>
> Coming back to the discussion, no i do not use any xset command
> explicitly as a part of my X startup file. If there are some settings
> because of which it happens automatically, then i may be not be aware
> of that.
>
> Would you please let me know how to go about checking those settings.
> For your information(if that helps) I can log on to the same accounts
> using my linux box but for some reason solaris is giving me errors as
> shown above. So that means i can log into both accounts using linux
> with X windows available. However as I mentioned previously, the Sun
> based server is allowing me access without any X windows accessibility
> and the linux based servers are not allowing me access at all it
> seems. There seems to be absolutely no activity on the console.
>
> Hope to hear from you guys,
>
> Regards,
> Aijaz

Does anyone have any idea what could be done to fix this.

burnout_AS <aijazbaig1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
>> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
>> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>>
>> Are you doing any 'xset' command explicitly as part of your X startup
>> files?  Can you log in as another user?

> Coming back to the discussion, no i do not use any xset command
> explicitly as a part of my X startup file. If there are some settings
> because of which it happens automatically, then i may be not be aware
> of that.

> Would you please let me know how to go about checking those settings.

No particular idea.  The error message is from 'xset', so it's getting
run somewhere.  Possibly from the default Xsession being run.  But if
it's there, I wouldn't expect errors.  

Solaris 10 we could 'dtrace' to find all invocations.  Otherwise it
would be more difficult to find them.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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