PDK patch installation through 'virtuoso -nograph' requiring Xvfb is not working on RHEL 8.x

There's no checkSysConf data for IC6.1.8/ICADVM20.1 for RHEL8 because it is not officially supported (this means that it was not in the platform matrix when first released in 2018, and is not routinely tested). However, some changes were made in ISR24 to allow it to run, but as it's not routinely tested there are still no patch data files.

The checkSysConf data for the upcoming Virtuoso Studio (IC23.1) which comes out at the end of June does contain a requirement to install at least xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.3 on RHEL8 (there are patch data files for this release because IC23.1 does indeed support RHEL8). That should exist (I can certainly find it with a spot of google searching).

Andrew 

Unfortunately, it seems that you have another google engine than I do: no valid RHEL8 RPM's are available. 

You can find plenty of Xvfb RPM's, but none is qualified for RHEL8

(https://pkgs.org/download/xorg-x11-server-Xvfb ; https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xorg-x11-Xvfb&submit=Search+...&system=&arch= ; https://rpm.pbone.net/ )  

All for RHEL7, never for RHEL8.

Besides, what's the risk of screwing the existing X11 environment (We use X11 for VNC and for X forwarding like through PuTTY)? 

My google search for "xorg-x11-server-Xvfb RHEL8" found this: https://centos.pkgs.org/8-stream/centos-appstream-x86_64/xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.10-1.el8.x86_64.rpm.html (yes, it's the CentOS link, but I'd expect RHEL8 RPMs to come from RedHat via a subscription; I can't check that because I don't have access myself as this is handled centrally within Cadence). I just checked on a RHEL8.4 machine that ended up on in our compute farm and that has it installed. I can't confirm from where it was downloaded (without asking our IT - sorry, I've been out of the office today), but I'd be a little surprised if it was from CentOS since it's a RHEL8.4 image.

I'm not aware of any issue with this affecting existing X11 environments. Given the contents, it seems highly unlikely - here's the contents of the rpm on the machine I looked at:

UNIX> rpm -ql xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.10-1.el8.x86_64
/usr/bin/Xvfb
/usr/bin/xvfb-run
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/7eaea725408107f868c885bca522b1d52a98c0
/usr/share/man/man1/Xvfb.1.gz

This is consistent with the contents listed on the link I showed above. In other words, there are two executables and a man page - I can't see how this could possibly interfere with anything else.

BTW, your post went into moderation not because there was any concern about what you were saying; it was the presence of an external URL that triggers the 'potential spam'  check which puts it into moderation. Whilst that's obviously inconvenient for you, it's far less annoying that the high volume of link-spam we used to frequently get on the forums. Sorry for the inconvenience and delay until I could approve the post.

Regards,

Andrew

My google search for "xorg-x11-server-Xvfb RHEL8" found this: https://centos.pkgs.org/8-stream/centos-appstream-x86_64/xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.10-1.el8.x86_64.rpm.html (yes, it's the CentOS link, but I'd expect RHEL8 RPMs to come from RedHat via a subscription; I can't check that because I don't have access myself as this is handled centrally within Cadence). I just checked on a RHEL8.4 machine that ended up on in our compute farm and that has it installed. I can't confirm from where it was downloaded (without asking our IT - sorry, I've been out of the office today), but I'd be a little surprised if it was from CentOS since it's a RHEL8.4 image.

I'm not aware of any issue with this affecting existing X11 environments. Given the contents, it seems highly unlikely - here's the contents of the rpm on the machine I looked at:

UNIX> rpm -ql xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.10-1.el8.x86_64
/usr/bin/Xvfb
/usr/bin/xvfb-run
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/7eaea725408107f868c885bca522b1d52a98c0
/usr/share/man/man1/Xvfb.1.gz

This is consistent with the contents listed on the link I showed above. In other words, there are two executables and a man page - I can't see how this could possibly interfere with anything else.

BTW, your post went into moderation not because there was any concern about what you were saying; it was the presence of an external URL that triggers the 'potential spam'  check which puts it into moderation. Whilst that's obviously inconvenient for you, it's far less annoying that the high volume of link-spam we used to frequently get on the forums. Sorry for the inconvenience and delay until I could approve the post.

Regards,

Andrew

It might be that we've found the solution after all: the package is not in the default RHEL8 distribution, but... you can also enable additional optional repos!!!

the repos are:

- codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

- rhel-8-for-x86_64-supplementary-rpms

To enable, you need to add these additional repos to your repo-browser as superuser with:

subscription-manager repos --enable <repo-name> 

And then you can run 

yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb