Friday, November 18, 2011
Wireshark 1.6.1 fails to start on Solaris 10
On a fresh Solaris 10 install, Wireshark (from sunfreeware.com) just wouldn’t start:
root@am1slc01 # wireshark No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org
Quick‑and‑dirty fix:
root@am1slc01 # cp -p /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.bak
root@am1slc01 # cp -p /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
root@am1slc01 # wireshark
It works, but if you have a cleaner approach, I’m all ears.
Cheers