can't run new 1.5 limewire because of missing fonts (actually it runs, but can't read)

typical message

Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]

Are you sure it is the fonts? I received the same messages with LimeWireOther.zip, and now LimeWire 1.5 . Not a single font seems to be recognized, but I can still read everything just fine. I use red hat btw.

after the error messages subside, I get a little
box for LimeWire that just says "welcome". I can't see anything else and there is no response to mouse clicks from anywhere on that box. It
doesn't crash, just can't do anything with it.
The only indication is the fonts error messages.

Well, see, it's not actually an error message. Have you tried re-downloading it? The "Welcome" message seems a bit odd. Mine just starts up with the LimeWire screen, as it always has in previous versions. No "welcome" at all.

The problem with the welcome message is a windows resizing problem© The developers of Limewire have not made the welcome window resizable hoping that it will be displayed at an adequate size© Unfortunately this is not the case and the window is way too small making it impossible to click on whatever is there to progress further© I can't understand why the developers have done this as they were aware of the problem with version 1©4b as there was a previous thread about it© Its quite easy in Java to make windows resizable and the Linux version needs this© Its also quite obvious that limewire developers don't believe in testing but just release stuff and hope that it works© As for the fonts problem this just means you don't have those fonts on your system and it is not a problem if it annoys you can edit the font©properties file ¥ in ~jre/lib¤and place a # in front of those fonts you don't have© Check which fonts you have in ~/jre/lib/fonts
bye

Hi it's me again I just wrote the above message© I have managed to get 1©5 working now© I did it by copying my old 1©4 limwire©props file into the new 1©5 directory© It appears that if Limewire see that limewire©props is configured it does not display that stupid welcome message©
bye again

I had the problem with the welcome window too and I somehow fixed it by using JDK instead of JRE .. and I wonder why ;-)

OK, I fixed the error messages about the fonts
as suggested (commenting out from font.properties)
However, copying over the 1.4b limewire.props
file into the 1.5 directory and then running v1.5
did not fix my little welcome window problem.
What about file ownership and protection setup?
Maybe it is not seeing the limewire.props file
because of that.

Me again! glad you got the fonts working I don't know why the limewire©props is not working as it did for me© Anyway here is my 1©5 limewire©props file try it once you get limewire working you can alter the options to suit your on taste©
¥You may have to change/create the directories to suit your setup¤

#Fri Jul 06 11:34:03 BST 2001
MAIN_CLASS=a©a©a©b©Main
WINDOW_Y=20
FORCE_IP_ADDRESS=false
BANNED_WORDS=
WINDOW_X=0
PORT=6346
CLEAR_UPLOAD=false
TTL=5
FILTER_HTML=false
SHOW_CLOSE_DIALOG=true
INSTALLED=true
FORCED_IP_ADDRESS_STRING=
EXTENSIONS_TO_SEARCH_FOR=html;htm;xml;txt;pdf;ps;r tf;doc;tex;mp3;wav;au;aif;aiff
;ra;ram;mpg;mpeg;asf;qt;mov;avi;mpe;swf;dcr;gif;jp g;jpeg;jpe;png;tif;tiff;exe;zi
p;gz;gzip;hqx;tar;tgz;z;rmj;lqt;rar;ace;sit;smi
ALLOW_BROWSER=false
SEARCH_ANIMATION_TIME=20
TOTAL_UPTIME=51552000
AVERAGE_UPTIME=1982769
CHECK_AGAIN=true
BLACK_LISTED_IP_ADDRESSES=
FREELOADER_FILES=1
SEARCH_LIMIT=64
APP_WIDTH=1152
SESSIONS=26
MAX_INCOMING_CONNECTIONS=2
BASIC_QUERY_INFO=1000
UPLOAD_SPEED=50
TIMEOUT=8000
FILTER_ADULT=false
FILTER_GREEDY_QUERIES=true
MINIMIZE_TO_TRAY=true
CLEAR_DOWNLOAD=false
UPLOADS_PER_PERSON=3
ADVANCED_QUERY_INFO=50
FORCED_PORT=6346
SAVE_DEFAULT=/home/me/mp3_incomming
QUICK_CONNECT_HOSTS=router©limewire©com\:6346;gnut ellahosts©com\:6346
CONNECTION_SPEED=56
MAX_UPLOADS=2
FILTER_VBS=true
DIRECTORY_FOR_SAVING_FILES=/home/me/LimeWire/Shared
SHOW_TRAY_DIALOG=true
FORCED_IP_ADDRESS=
RUN_ONCE=true
SOFT_MAX_TTL=10
APP_HEIGHT=783
MAX_TTL=50
PROMPT_EXE_DOWNLOAD=true
FREELOADER_ALLOWED=100
MAX_LENGTH=65536
KEEP_ALIVE=3
DIRECTORIES_TO_SEARCH_FOR_FILES=/home/me/LimeWire/Shared;
MAX_SIM_DOWNLOAD=3
FILTER_DUPLICATES=true
CONNECT_OK_STRING=GNUTELLA OK
CONNECT_STRING=GNUTELLA CONNECT/0©4
USE_QUICK_CONNECT=false
CLIENT_ID=5F28EBF31CD476E2FFBE0FAF787A2D00
CLASSPATH=LimeWire©jar\:collections©jar
PARALLEL_SEARCH=5
FILTER_HIGHBIT_QUERIES=true

Thanks for your copy of the limewire.props.
I have used it and now have a different error/problem. I no longer see the welcome
window, but I get an error:
fea_home::/usr/local/LimeWire/v1.5/: limewire
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/java/util/collections/Random
at a.a.a.bd.<clinit>(bd.java:32)
at a.a.a.ca.c(ca.java:523)
at a.a.a.ca.b(ca.java:149)
at a.a.a.ca.<init>(ca.java:137)
at a.a.a.ca.<clinit>(ca.java:100)
at a.a.a.c.Initializer.b(Initializer.java:75)
at a.a.a.c.Main.main(Main.java:16)
at a.a.a.b.Main.main(Main.java:13)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at RunLime.main(RunLime.java:70)
fea_home::/usr/local/LimeWire/v1.5/:

My PATH includes the newly-installed java per the
installation instructions

PATH=/home/fea/bin:.:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin

I get a box on the X11 screen:

LimeWire has encountered the following error:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Please send this error to bugs@limewire.com

The first line in the limewire.props is

MAIN_CLASS=a.a.a.b.Main

What is the problem here?