AA on Prem patch installer: 'Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font'
2 years ago
Originally Published: 2009-04-01
Article Number
000045975
Applies To
Solaris 10

Issue
JVM throws: "Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font"

Cause
While trying to install an AAoP patch or hotfix the installer aborts with an exception similar to the following:

 Warning: Cannot convert string "-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-
iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font
Warning:
Name: FONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG_STRING
Class: XmRendition
Conversion failed. Cannot load font.

Java Accessibility Bridge for GNOME loaded.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.InternalError: java/langNullPoi
nterException
at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.pSetFont(Native Method)
at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.setFont(MComponentPeer.java:247)
at sun.awt.motif.MWindowPeer.init(MWindowPeer.java:116)
at sun.awt.motif.MFramePeer.<init>(MFramePeer.java:58)


Resolution
Execute the following command (as root) before re-running the installer:
xset fp+ /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TTbitmaps