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I am unable to open graphical view of an element in ClearCase.

While doing: clearcase lsvtree -g

I get:

xclearcase : warning: could not load font 'GB2312.1980-0'

jrbedard
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Check first (if xclearcase means an old ClearCase 7.x on Linux or Solaris) if this is LANG issue: see this technote.

It was determined that the LANG variable was unset on UNIX® or Linux® and caused the core to occur when the remote display attempted to process xclearcase data.

This could also be caused by an incorrect LANG variable setting.

This may also occur on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 when the X11 display is local to the RHEL6 system.

If the LANG environment is set, this issue can be resolved on RHEL5 by changing the LANG environment variable setting from the default en_US.UTF-8 to en_US.

Workarounds:

  • Option 1:
    You may be able to resolve the issue by creating the following link on the server:
    /usr/lib/X11/nls/XhpV3/C -> /usr/lib/X11/nls/XhpV3/iso88591
  • Option 2:
    You can try to change your Exceed setting from "PseudoColor" to "Auto Select" in order to connect.
  • Option 3:
    Under BlueZoneX server software, the fix was to tell it to use the Microsoft fonts as well as the ones from BlueZone.
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  • This is the labmachine(Virtual machine) we have configured – Kumar Nov 23 '16 at 09:19
  • What version of ClearCase have you installed on it? What is the output of cat /etc/os-release when done in this VM? – VonC Nov 23 '16 at 09:21
  • This is the labmachine(Virtual machine) we have configured on users request with Rhel 7.2 (Mapio). Earlier it asks for libMrm.so.3 after installing that pack we got this error(xclearcase : warning: could not load font 'GB2312.1980-0' , KSC5601.1987-0 , JISX0208.1983-0). But in our main server we had RHEL 6.5 its working fine.Clearcase version is 8.0.13 for both m/c's – Kumar Nov 23 '16 at 09:24
  • shoots error /usr/lib/X11/nls/XhpV3/C -> /usr/lib/X11/nls/XhpV3/iso88591 -bash: /usr/lib/X11/nls/XhpV3/iso88591: No such file or directory – Kumar Nov 23 '16 at 09:34
  • where can i change exceed settings?? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?ratlid=cctocbody&rs=984&uid=swg21257223 i have seen this link couple of days back which consists the options u suggested but where i have to change? – Kumar Nov 23 '16 at 09:34
  • If you are using Windows-based X server software (Exceed, Cygwin-X, etc.) you're using an explicitly unsupported configuration. If you can replicate it via VNC to the ClearCase host, opening a PMR with IBM may be the best option. – Brian Cowan Nov 28 '16 at 15:50
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Since my comment gets folded in, I'll enter it as an "answer."

ClearCase explicitly does not support X sessions where the X server is a Windows host. This isn't to say it doesn't mostly work, but when it breaks down, the answer is usually "You're on your own."

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=219&context=SSCBN78&q1=linux&uid=swg21128395&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

A local CTE, or a VNC session are better options for accessing the Unix-based resources from windows without installing the full CC client.

Eclipse over X-forwarding may be acutely painful, depending on the location of the CC host and the X server. I tried it over a VPN once, JUST once. VNC was MUCH better.

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