On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:44:09PM +0100, "Preu?, J?rgen" wrote: >Hi Readers, > >I'm trying to use XFree86/cygwin with fontserver. I've found it unusable. > >Starting xfs from bash console gives > > $ xfs > _FontTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.font-unix should be set to root > _FontTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed > _FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running > xfs notice: listening on port 7100 > xfs error: Cannot establish any listening sockets > Aborted (core dumped) > >Using of external xfs (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX) makes the GUI blocking without >recovery. I used the command "xset +fp tcp/<host>:<port>". > >So it seems to be an more xfs-library-related problem. > >I don't hope to be an victim of the crippled/reduced IP-Stack on WinNT 4.0 + >SP5. > >Thanks in advance for your hints + fixes.
One hint might be that you should use the appropriate mailing list for Cygwin/XFree86 questions - cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com . Redirected. cgf
