On 25 Nov, Emacs Rocky wrote: > Dear: > > I just sent a mail to complain I can't start X in cygwin. > > Now, I fount the solution in old mail-list. > > Anybody experienced the same problem can refer to > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-10/msg00051.html > > > the key point is : You need to mount the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts with > binary mode. > > but , I don't know why it worked well in another machine without the > mount for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts . > > anyway. thanks to all you guys. > > Rocky
This used to be broken in Cygwin for a while, then it was fixed. I reinstalled from a snapshot from Jan 3rd 2007 and the problem had returned. I had no mount point for X at all, so I don't know why the problem occurred. I did have a warning from setup saying that setup.ini indicated it was newer than the version setup was expecting to install. I re-ran setup a couple more times, re-installing the fonts (no complaints about possibly mismatched setup.ini file this time), with no luck. Anyway, because I had no mount of the X fonts directory at all, I did this to create one: $ mount -b c:\cygwin\usr\lib\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and re-ran setup to reinstall the fonts yet agai, and yes, X could now start, the problem is fixed. luke -- 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/