VisualWorks 7.6 installation fails on Fedora 11 live CD hard disk installation.

Greetings,
        Installation of NC VisualWorks 7.6 on Fedora 11 installation (hard drive install from a Fedora 11 live CD) using the installUnix shell (batch) script does not work. It doesn't report any errors, does nothing.

Tried to run the linux binary (virtual machine) with the install.im image directly on the command line. That didn't work either. Tried installing it on Fedora 7 (this is NOT a live cd install, but the big DVD install). It works fine on Fedora 7. Searched on the web for how to find what libraries/files a certain application uses and came across strace and ldd. glibc per install documentation is also installed.

Attached are the strace and ldd from both F11 and F7. The strace.out is the output from this command line: "strace -eopen vw7.6nc/bin/linux86/visual -=./vw7.6nc/image/install.im > straceF11.out 2>&1".

Also tried the net install option. Same results since the net install does the same thing eventually - tries to run a install image by the virtual machine.

Are there any other libraries needed that are missing from the live CD install?

Thank you,
Prasad Khurd
lddF7.out.txt
lddF11.out.txt
straceF7.out.txt
straceF11.out.txt

Missed the question:
Are there any other libraries/files needed that are absent in the Fedora 11 live CD installation?

thank you,
Prasad

I suspect this is the problem that Fedora 11 does not include the xorg-x11 fonts, and thus there is no Helvetica font, which is what it's looking for.

Tentative advice we have at the moment is
- Install at *least* one of the following packages
         xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
         xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
- Consider installing all packages with at least one of the following wildcard names
         xorg-x11-fonts*-100dpi
         xorg-x11-fonts*-75dpi
   
or try adding the following to your ~/.Xdefaults file to make the fixed font show up in VW:
         St80.xlfdOnly: false

I'm not sure if either of these is very easy to do off a live CD directly, but should be possible if you've done a hard drive install from it.

At 11:47 AM 2009-08-20, Prasad Khurd wrote:

Greetings,
         Installation of NC VisualWorks 7.6 on Fedora 11 installation (hard drive
install from a Fedora 11 live CD) using the installUnix shell (batch) script
does not work. It doesn't report any errors, does nothing.

Tried to run the linux binary (virtual machine) with the install.im image
directly on the command line. That didn't work either. Tried installing it
on Fedora 7 (this is NOT a live cd install, but the big DVD install). It
works fine on Fedora 7. Searched on the web for how to find what
libraries/files a certain application uses and came across strace and ldd.
glibc per install documentation is also installed.

Attached are the strace and ldd from both F11 and F7. The strace.out is the
output from this command line: "strace -eopen vw7.6nc/bin/linux86/visual
-=./vw7.6nc/image/install.im > straceF11.out 2>&1".

Also tried the net install option. Same results since the net install does
the same thing eventually - tries to run a install image by the virtual
machine.

Are

Thank you,
Prasad Khurd
http://www.nabble.com/file/p25064695/lddF7.out.txt lddF7.out.txt
http://www.nabble.com/file/p25064695/lddF11.out.txt lddF11.out.txt
http://www.nabble.com/file/p25064695/straceF7.out.txt straceF7.out.txt
http://www.nabble.com/file/p25064695/straceF11.out.txt straceF11.out.txt
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Did the following to install the fonts. The install worked. Visualworks is working fine. Thanks Alan.
yum install xorg-x11-fonts*-100dpi
yum install xorg-x11-fonts*-75dpi

<quote author="Alan Knight-2">
I suspect this is the problem that Fedora 11 does not include the xorg-x11 fonts, and thus there is no Helvetica font, which is what it's looking for.

Tentative advice we have at the moment is
- Install at *least* one of the following packages
        xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
        xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
- Consider installing all packages with at least one of the following wildcard names
        xorg-x11-fonts*-100dpi
        xorg-x11-fonts*-75dpi
   
or try adding the following to your ~/.Xdefaults file to make the fixed font show up in VW:
        St80.xlfdOnly: false

I'm not sure if either of these is very easy to do off a live CD directly, but should be possible if you've done a hard drive install from it.