Re: Problem with starting X server
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. -- Andy Rushton, Southampton, UK Fortune and love befriend the bold. -- Ovid -- 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/
Re: xwin problem
bobby barcenas wrote: hello, I have been using cygwin and the x server very well for a couple of years now, thank you, but recently I tried to update some of my files because i was unable to run and opengl dependent file on xwin. so i looked online and ran setup.exe and installed the appropate files. however, when that setup was compete i could no longer run xwin. whenever i type startx into cygwin, i get an error message because it cant find a font in a directory that does not exist on my computer: /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/Cid Actually the log shows: - Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' - The first bit about dah/dit/dah/CID is just a warning. The other message is the error. This issue has just been resolved in the thread Problem with starting X server. -- Andy Rushton, Southampton, UK Fortune and love befriend the bold. -- Ovid -- 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/
ImageMagick 6.0.4 no longer executes with package xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1
Hi all, I have found a problem with ImageMagick 6.0.4 running with xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1 - and I've found a temporary fix. Problem: After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, which updated the X11 packages amongst many other things, the 'convert' program stopped working. It simply exited silently with an error status. I discovered with gdb that it was failing with an unknown exception but I could find no more information. It turned out, thanks to running 'cygcheck convert', that this was because of a missing DLL, specifically /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll. A bit more digging and I found that this DLL used to be part of package xorg-x11-bin-dlls but has been removed with the latest release - 6.8.99.901-1. It existed in all versions (as far as I have been able to find out) up to this one. I also discovered that this DLL itself relies on another missing DLL: /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll which I found in the same package. Work-around: I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and hand-installing them by copying them into the relevant directory. Fortunately they are still compatible with the other DLLs they depend on. Andy -- 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/
Re: Problem with starting X server
Stephen A.Goulet wrote: This is what finally worked for me. Start cygwin and do a df, if this show the mount points, /usr, /usr/bin/, and /usr/lib. Then umount /usr and close the cygwin window. Now do the reinstall of the fonts as documented in the FAQ. I agree, but wanted to add to this feedback. I have found that you need to mount the fonts in binary mode. You see, I go against the recommended practice and install Cygwin in Text mode - i.e. text files have DOS line-endings. I find that this allows better inter-operation between Cygwin apps and Windows apps. However, this seems to break X11's fonts (I *suspect* that somewhere in X the fonts are being opened in text mode when they are binary files but I haven't been able to confirm this). If this is your problem, the solution is to separately mount the font directory in binary mode - for example, my mount table contains the following: e:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) E:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) E:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) E:\cygwin on / type system (textmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type system (textmode,noumount) d: on /cygdrive/d type system (textmode,noumount) e: on /cygdrive/e type system (textmode,noumount) Note the first entry. Once I have this extra mount point for the X11 fonts, I reinstalled all the fonts using the Cygwin installer - which has a 'reinstall' option for each package. The reinstall means that the font indexes get regenerated. FYI the command for generating extra mount points is called 'mount'. -- 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/
