zibi1981 Posted February 4, 2007 Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 (edited) They say Linux is safe and doesn't need antivirus. Maybe. But when avast is giving a free licence for it's Linux Home Edition antivirus software, why not to try it? Never enough security. So I downloaded it and registered for a free code. Installation proceeded without problems, but they did appear after. When I'm running avast from CL, it automatically scans my hdd and everything seems to be O.K. But when I'm trying to run it in a GUI mode, I usually got this [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ avastgui (process:6374): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib (process:6374): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers sometimes this (process:6118): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib (process:6118): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers ** (avastgui:6118): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-urw-helvetica-medium-r-normal--1-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-13 ** (avastgui:6118): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-urw-helvetica-bold-r-normal--1-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-13 and always this (see attached thumbnails) How to resolve this? Edited February 4, 2007 by zibi1981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Please try (under a root console) urpmi urw-fonts I have seen the package at the Cooker repos, but I believe it's also available for 2007.0 (probably as -noarch package). Other than that, an antivirus is useful only if your Linux puter shares files with windoze clients at the LAN... else it's an oddity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted February 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 I'll surely make use of Your suggestion, as soon as I will be back home. At the moment I'm away, so have to use Windows :dry: When it comes to using antivirus on Linux...well, I think it's a matter of personal choice. As I said before, never enough security (to me) ;) . Besides I have Windows XP on the same computer, so better to be double secured :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted February 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 (edited) I'm back home for the weekend, so now I can make use of some suggestions :D It seems, that I already have these fonts installed on my system [root@localhost zibi1981]# rpm -qa | grep urw-fonts urw-fonts-2.0-16.1mdk and I'm still getting this strange error when trying to start avastgui [root@localhost zibi1981]# avastgui (process:6199): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib (process:6199): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers ** (avastgui:6199): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-urw-helvetica-medium-r-normal--1-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-13 ** (avastgui:6199): WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-urw-helvetica-bold-r-normal--1-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-13 There's another problem. When I start XGL I'm getting the same problem as with avastgui - no fonts at all. Maybe I'm missing another package containing some other fonts??? :unsure: EDIT Still no one hasn't got any idea how to solve this? Edited February 13, 2007 by zibi1981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted February 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Still no response... :sad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted March 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Well, I did resolve this problem eventually by installing "helvetica fonts", but now i did something, don't know what, and the problem is backa. I still get the same error [root@localhost Avast]# avastgui (process:16111): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib (process:16111): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers Maybe anyone will find a solution, or just figure out what I have done to mess things back... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 It seems that you must first install a glibc locale at your system. You probably have just Polish UTF-8 locales, and not en-US.UTF8, which should work with Avast right out of the box. Since I've not used Mandriva for ages, I can't recall the "easy way" to create glibc locales, but I'm sure someone else will respond. Open a root console, and type in locale -a What's the output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted March 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Hmm, it's always a hint. I'll try to find out something about creating glibc locales... Here's the output You requested [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ locale -a C CP1251 ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-10 ISO-8859-13 ISO-8859-14 ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-3 ISO-8859-4 ISO-8859-5 ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-9 KOI8-R KOI8-U pl pl_PL pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 pl_PL.UTF-8 polish POSIX UTF-8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I do not see any en_US.UTF8 installed, but I do not have any intention to recall how this can be done under Mandriva. Surely enough someone else who is using Mandriva right now can drop a good piece of advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 So it seems I'll have to wait... It's very strange to me because I've already solved this problem by installing helvetica fonts, and now something went wrong and the fonts in Avast are gone. But not only there. I also don't have any fonts when I switch to 3D desktop. It looks very similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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