I can't start XWin successfully on WinXP. I have re-installed and re-booted so often that I'm wearing out my disk and the restart icon. Yes, I have tried the advice in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof and it has not helped.
I would be very grateful for any advice. I have included more information below. Please let me know if there is anything I can add. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ for DIR in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*; do echo ; ls | wc -l; done /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi 1899 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi 1899 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF 26 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 61 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic 86 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings 35 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 447 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ font-update /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi is up-todate. skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi is up-todate. skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc is up-todate. skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID is not a directory. skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF is up-todate. skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 is up-todate. skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic is up-todate. skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local is not a directory. skipping [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ XWin Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.1.0-1 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1152 h 864 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root XWin was started with the following command line: XWin winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar ed memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls */fonts.dir 100dpi/fonts.dir TTF/fonts.dir cyrillic/fonts.dir 75dpi/fonts.dir Type1/fonts.dir misc/fonts.dir $ ls */fonts.alias 100dpi/fonts.alias 75dpi/fonts.alias cyrillic/fonts.alias misc/fonts.alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts $ grep ^fixed */fonts.alias cyrillic/fonts.alias:fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-koi8-r misc/fonts.alias:fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts $ grep ^fixed misc/fonts.alias grep "\-misc\-fixed\-medium\-r\-semicondensed\-\-13\-120\-75\-75\-c\-60\-iso8859\-1" */fonts.dir misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-10 misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-11 misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-13 misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-14 misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-16 $ ls -l misc/6x13-* -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4637 Oct 5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4551 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4409 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4689 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4502 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4614 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4547 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4519 Oct 5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4418 Oct 5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4572 Oct 5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4541 Oct 5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4486 Oct 5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4035 Oct 5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 4645 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz -rwxr-x---+ 1 simon Users 5057 Oct 5 15:28 misc/6x13-KOI8-R.pcf.gz