Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)
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/
Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)
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/
Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)
Steve Freeland wrote: 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. You really need to subscribe to the list or keep an eye on it if you have problems. There's lots of information, current and historical, that you can get from it which can help you but won't come to your email box without your request. Case in point, you would know what the underlying problem was if you had been following at least this thread. It's spelled out here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-07/msg00092.html You can't rely on someone else providing this insight to you personally. If you're not on the list and/or don't read it, you will miss out on answers to allot of your questions (even to some you haven't yet formulated yourself). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 23:55 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: This mount used to be routinely added by the X postinstall script. IIRC, this has been fixed in X so that such a mount is no longer required. Searching the list archives may unearth the relevant thread. However, the bug may have crept back, or may not have been propagated to the latest Cygwin/X release. 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. Most likely fonts.dir is not written in binmode. Patching mkfontscale might help or forcing mkfontscale to work in binmode when started from font-update. I see that the fix on the CYGWIN branch is to do this. So I'll make the change in the X.org repos. Alan. -- 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
For me the problem is still opened. I do not have the /usr point in my mount point list. I have tried to follow all steps suggested at x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof but it still doesn't work. I have also reinstalled all X components. All those doesn't work. I'm using cygwin under the Windows OS. -- Mariusz Janczak -- 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
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Andy Rushton wrote: 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) This mount used to be routinely added by the X postinstall script. IIRC, this has been fixed in X so that such a mount is no longer required. Searching the list archives may unearth the relevant thread. However, the bug may have crept back, or may not have been propagated to the latest Cygwin/X release. 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. The regeneration of indexes is done by the postinstall script, which you could have re-run without reinstalling the font packages. Simply run each of /etc/postinstall/xorg-x11-f*.sh.done. FYI the command for generating extra mount points is called 'mount'. HTH, 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/
Re: Problem with starting X server
Igor Peshansky wrote: This mount used to be routinely added by the X postinstall script. IIRC, this has been fixed in X so that such a mount is no longer required. Searching the list archives may unearth the relevant thread. However, the bug may have crept back, or may not have been propagated to the latest Cygwin/X release. 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. Most likely fonts.dir is not written in binmode. Patching mkfontscale might help or forcing mkfontscale to work in binmode when started from font-update. bye ago -- 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
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: Problem with starting X server
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/
Re: Problem with starting X server
Jim, It this is the root of your problem: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress 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. The mount point mentioned in the FAQ doesn't exist, so this took care of my problem. I wished they where a little clearer in what has the wrong infomation that unumounting and reinstalling resolves. Hopes this helps. Steve Craig Smith wrote: I am getting the following text in XWin.log: (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1680 height: 1050 depth: 32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 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: 0409 (0409) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (USA) (409), type 4 (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li st! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress I have tried the remedy noted at x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof to no avail. In fact the umount command noted returns no mount found. I have tried reinstalling X, completely uninstalling cygwin and reinstalling it, to no avail. Googling the problem only points me to the FAQ over and over again. Any ideas on some other things I could try? Thanks, Craig Smith -- 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/
Problem with starting X server
I am getting the following text in XWin.log: (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1680 height: 1050 depth: 32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 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: 0409 (0409) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (USA) (409), type 4 (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li st! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress I have tried the remedy noted at x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof to no avail. In fact the umount command noted returns no mount found. I have tried reinstalling X, completely uninstalling cygwin and reinstalling it, to no avail. Googling the problem only points me to the FAQ over and over again. Any ideas on some other things I could try? Thanks, Craig Smith -- Craig Smith -- 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/
