On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Andy Rushton wrote: > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > I suspect that some bugfixes which were present in the CYGWIN branch on > > freedesktop are missing in the branch which was the source for the latest > > release. > > Just to confirm that the bug indeed *seems* to have crept back. I > updated to the latest release and then the server would not start due to > the "cannot find font 'fixed'" problem. Re-mounted the fonts directory > in binmode, reinstalled just the fonts and it all works. Fortunately I > remembered this work-around from some time back when I last had this > problem. Sorry, I have no recollection when or what version. > > I guess most people won't have any problems because they install Cygwin > with Unix newlines, thus making textmode and binmode identical. Thus no > cacophony of complaints.
As a short-term solution, perhaps we could reinstate the mounting of the fonts directory in binmode in the postinstall script (using something like <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-07/msg00018.html>) until the fixes from the CYGWIN branch can be released. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
