From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 07:39:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA14259 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 07:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from vital.bleeding.com (flea.bleeding.com [205.166.195.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA14252 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 07:39:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from crimson (crimson.bleeding.com [205.166.254.2]) by vital.bleeding.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA00264 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 07:36:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by crimson with Microsoft Mail id <01BC40CB.87E371E0@crimson>; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 07:40:56 -0800 Message-ID: <01BC40CB.87E371E0@crimson> From: Justin Wolf To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: 'Locale not supported' when not a superuser in X Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 07:40:54 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id HAA14255 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If I set an X-server up on my Win95 machine (MI/X) and then attempt to open xterm to it, I get the following error: X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Atom id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 24 Current serial number in output stream: 31 xedit returns a similar result: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset X Error: BadAtom Request Major code 18 () AtomID 0x0 Error Serial #49 Current Serial #56 Now, if I run these programs while a superuser, there's no problems reported and the apps start just fine. I've checked things like file permissions, etc., but everything seems to look fine. Any suggestions? BTW, xload, xeyes, xclock, xdu all work fine... -Justin Wolf (jjwolf@bleeding.com)