linux (debian/woody) missing fonts for limewire1.5
 

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.

I think it is the fonts
 

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

small welcome window
 

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

reponse from original poster: still not fixed for me
 

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

still having problems
 

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?

Hmm well at least you've got a bit further. I'm no Java expert but looking at the errors I would say the missing classes are all in the limewire distro itself. Make sure you are launching limewire in the its home dir
/usr/local/LimeWire/v1.5/
I presume the above is the dirctory in which you have limewire installed and looking at it I think it is Incorrect. I would try making sure 1.5 is in a directory called Limewire (note the case) and then use cd to enter the Limewire directory and run the script.
Good Luck
Richard

one last check
 

I tried your last suggestion. One last check:
Another person actually performed the download, so
it might be possible that there was errors. I
am including the directory of the contents below.
It seemed small to me, but I have no idea of what
it should actually be.

fea_home::/usr/local/LimeWire/v1.5/: ls -lat
total 858
drwxr-xr-x 3 root users 296 Jul 7 19:09 ./
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 1608 Jul 7 09:56 limewire.props
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 96 Jul 6 17:33 ../
drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 48 Jul 5 20:19 Shared/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 0 Jul 5 20:19 gnutella.net
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root users 358 Jul 3 13:04 runlime.sh*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 942 Jul 3 11:28 README.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 2983 Jul 2 17:33 RunLime.class
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 594675 Jul 2 17:28 LimeWire.jar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 259265 Jan 14 1999 collections.jar
fea_home::/usr/local/LimeWire/v1.5/:

mine is:

[me@darkstar LimeWire]$ ls -lat
total 888
drwxr-x--- 37 me me 8192 Jul 8 12:01 ©©
-rw-rw-r-- 1 me me 1497 Jul 7 09:57 gnutella©net
drwxrwxr-x 2 me me 4096 Jul 7 09:57 Incomplete
-rw-rw-r-- 1 me me 1567 Jul 7 09:57 limewire©props
drwxrwxr-x 2 me me 4096 Jul 7 09:54 Shared
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me me 359 Jul 7 09:30 runlime©sh
drwxr-xr-x 4 me me 4096 Jul 7 07:32 ©
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 942 Jul 3 16:28 README©txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 2983 Jul 2 22:33 RunLime©class
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 594675 Jul 2 22:28 LimeWire©jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 259265 Jan 14 1999 collections©jar
[me@darkstar LimeWire]$

Which looks the same
Is this a limewire problem or is it a Java problem? have you got other java programs to work? Have you set up Java properly?
Do you have the following entries in your ©bash_profile:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/jdk1©3©0_02/bin
BASH_ENV=$HOME/©bashrc
JAVA_PATH=/usr/local/jdk1©3©0_02
export BASH_ENV PATH JAVA_PATH

Note I have the jdk/bin directory in my PATH and I also have a JAVA_PATH variable set to my jdk root directory©
Richard

could it be the kernel ?
 

Thanks Richard for all your help. I tried your
last suggestion, but that still did not fix the
problem. I read in another posting that java
did not work the same in kernel 2.4.x. What
kernel are you running? I am running 2.4.6.
If you are using 2.4.x, is there a switch that
is special for java?

Aha I'm running 2©4©2 on RH 7©1 but now you've reminded me that sun java 1©3x doesn't work unless you do this:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2©2©5
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

Try typing that at the command prompt before you run limewire© If it works place the line in the java script in the jdk/bin dir
Sorry it's some time since I installed java and I forgot about the above©
Richard