hciserveradmin on Linux

[Michael Hertel]

Hi all,

I am trying to run hciserveradmin on a new Linux box.

Has anyone seen this before?

[hci@vsiep01 ~]$ export DISPLAY=10.12.16.222:0.0

[hci@vsiep01 ~]$ hciserveradmin &

[1] 12851

[hci@vsiep01 ~]$ java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0

       at sun.font.CompositeStrike.getStrikeForSlot(CompositeStrike.java:75)

       at sun.font.CompositeStrike.getFontMetrics(CompositeStrike.java:93)

       at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.initMatrixAndMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:359)

       at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.(FontDesignMetrics.java:350)

       at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:302)

       at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:1113)

       at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1626)

       at javax.swing.text.PlainView.calculateLongestLine(PlainView.java:639)

       at javax.swing.text.PlainView.updateMetrics(PlainView.java:209)

       at javax.swing.text.PlainView.setSize(PlainView.java:490)

       at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$RootView.setSize(BasicTextUI.java:1722)

       at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.getPreferredSize(BasicTextUI.java:917)

       at javax.swing.JComponent.getPreferredSize(JComponent.java:1662)

       at javax.swing.JTextField.getPreferredSize(JTextField.java:424)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.EnvironChooser.jbInit(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.EnvironChooser.createContents(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiDialog.init(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiDialog.init(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiDialog.open(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiDialog.open(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiMainFrame.changeCloverleafServer(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiMainFrame.getEnvironAndServer(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiMainFrame.doServerLogin(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.serveradmin.ServerAdminMainFrame.doServerLogin(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiMainFrame.(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.serveradmin.ServerAdminMainFrame.(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.serveradmin.ServerAdminApplication.constructMainFrame(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.StdGuiApplication.(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.serveradmin.ServerAdminApplication.(Unknown Source)

       at com.hie.cloverleaf.gui.serveradmin.ServerAdminApplication.main(Unknown Source)

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Information on configuration:

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Host Server: vsiep01.internal.vmmc.org/10.20.209.5

Current Platform:

Java version: 1.8.0_60

 Java vendor: Oracle Corporation

     OS type: Linux

  OS version: 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64

     OS arch: amd64

Host Server Build Information:

     Version: 6.2.0.2P

        Date: Thu Jun 8 2017

        Time: 03:03:04 AM

    Platform: Windows_NT

 Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.

 JDK Version: 1.8.0_60

Swing Version: 1.8.0_60

 RMI Version: 1.8.0_60

Engine Build Information:

          Version: 6.2.0.2P

             Date: Thu Jun  1 2017

             Time: 22:10:01 PM

         Platform: Linux x86_64

LogicalProcessors: 2

Topic

[David Barr]

Looks like a missing font or display size issue with your X server. What are you using for your X11 display? I normally use Cygwin, but there are lots of things you can use: Linux console, Reflection, MobaXterm, etc. Maybe try using something else and see if the problem goes away.

Are other X11 programs working? Can you run Xterm?

[David Barr]

I’m also not sure what you mean by “new Linux box”. There are potentially three systems involved: the Cloverleaf server where the host server is running, the computer where the hciserveradmin client is running, and the computer with the X11 display. They might all be one and the same or they might all be different. Which one is the new one?

[Michael Hertel]

Sorry for the confusion David.

I’ve been on AIX for a hundred years using tcsh.

We are upgrading to a new (to us) Linux host.

I am encountering differences obviously.

I am using Exceed and it work fine when I bring up hciserveradmin on the AIX host. CL 6.1

I am now trying to use the same exceed on my workstation pointing at the new Linux box. BTW, I’m using the bash shell instead of tcsh.

Yes, xclock works but I do get the error “Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion”

So you are right it probably is X11 and something in the difference with my .profile kind of files in my hci home directory.

I don’t get the warning like the xclock warning when I run hciserveradmin, it just blows up.

[David Barr]

It sounds like a font problem. I’m not sure how you configure fonts for Exceed. When you type “xset q”, what is your font path set to? You can type “xlsfonts” to list your fonts. Are there a lot of them? I get about 4600 of them with the Cygwin X server.

[Michael Hertel]

It was a font issue, on the Linux box, David.

I was confused as to where you wanted me to run xset q and xlsfonts but thank you for the advice.

In the meantime, support/development came back with the solution:

Please try installing this package:

yum install dejavu-serif-fonts

Details

Incident : 11390947

[David Barr]

That’s weird. If you’re running Exceed, then most of the time the fonts will be loaded from your PC. Maybe you have a font server in your font path, and it’s loading fonts from the Linux box. Glad to hear it’s fixed.

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