I followed your steps I found that this solution doesn't work for me. I also tried to reinstall whole cygwin packege and also without effect. The only one solution that works for me is install previous version of X package.
-- Mariusz Janczak "Steve Freeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apologies for not attaching this to the correct thread; I'm not subscribed > to the list and don't really know how I should go about that. But > anyways. > > Regarding the "Could not open default font 'fixed'" message: Stephen A. > Goulet mentioned that he was able to fix the problem by following the > instructions in the FAQ, substituting /usr for the non-existant > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 mount point. Mariusz Janczak then replied that he > didn't have a /usr mount point either. I was in the same situation. > > The solution I found was to just umount *everything*: First /usr/lib, then > /, and /usr/bin last because that's where the umount exe is located. > *Then* reinstall the font packages. That fixed it for me. I suspect I > only really needed to umount /, but I haven't tested that hypothesis. > > I'd sure like to know what the underlying problem is, though, it seems odd > for this issue to appear out of nowhere in a working system. > > - Steve > > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/