X11 Setup GUI window has garbage characters

Products

• CA Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

I am installing Spectrum on RedHat Linux and getting an error during the .setuplin.exe part. The X11 Window drawn the setup GUI ok but when I select a component to install, whether Spectrum or SRAdmin, the next dialog will only show garbage characters and the text is unreadable. 

In Command Line while running the setup, there is an error: "Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion"

 

Environment

Spectrum installation on Linux 

Cause

This issue is likely caused by missing X11 fontsets for the OS. 

Resolution

First thing you can try to to set the locale variables in case these are not set properly.

Run the following: 

export LC_ALL=C

or

export LC_ALL=en_US

You can verify by running

locale

 

Next is to verify X11 fonts are installed. You can see what fonts are installed with command fc-list

RedHat support mentions new Linux installations planning to use X Applications need to have font groups installed. See link below in "Additional Information" section. 

yum groupinstall fonts

A possible specific font which could be causing the issue may be xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch

 

Last, if the above does not solve the issue, you may want to run debug during the install for a more verbose output for further clues: 

export LAX_DEBUG=true

then run the installer again and make note of any errors and research against the errors for possible solutions. 

Additional Information

Spectrum X11 font package requirements: 

https://docops.ca.com/ca-spectrum/10-2-3/en/installing-and-upgrading/installing/system-requirements-for-installing-ca-spectrum/spectroserver-oneclick-and-webclient-requirements/system-requirements-for-linux


Guide to X11 fonts: 

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_X11/Fonts

 

RPM for xorg-x11-fonts-Type1: 

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16851035/dir/scientific_linux_6/com/xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-9.1.el6.noarch.rpm.html

 

RedHat Fonts info: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/deployment_guide/s1-x-fonts