After setting the installation setting:
Default Text File Type
to
DOS/text,
and installing the x server,
the server will not start, and places an error in /tmp/XWin.log, saying:
could not open default font 'fixed'
The FAQ has an attempted solution (8.4), but does not note that a third
reason for the error is simply that Cygwin was installed with DOS/text
files. I don't think making that selection should cause the x server to die.
For those who have already installed with DOS/text, the solution is to
run http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe, select Unix/binary file types on
the third page, and set each of the following packages to Reinstall:
xorg-x11-f100
xorg-x11-fcyr
xorg-x11-fenc
xorg-x11-fnts
xorg-x11-fscl
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