Re: Cygwin X fails to start

[Michael A. LaBrot]

I, too, experienced the "could not open default font 'fixed'" problem
and the FAQ did not help me either. I was able to run X after changing
the Cygwin "Default Text File Type" from "DOS/text" to "Unix/binary"
during setup. Consider this a bug report.

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"Javier Delgadillo" wrote:
All,

I've been trying to install Cygwin X on a Win XP machine for the last 2
days and can't get it to work.  I've done google searches for possible
solutions but the posts I've found seem outdated and no longer apply.

This appears to be a problem with the "could not open default font
'fixed'" error message.  All of the posts I've seen regarding this imply
there is a problem with the mounts, but I've got 2 other installs here
that do not mount the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory.  So I'm not
sure if those errors still apply.

I'm not sure what to try next as the instructions here
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof don't
seem to solve the problem for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my /tmp/XWin.log:

Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.99.901-4

Contact: cygwin-xfree@...

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

(WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be
created.

winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per
pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 depth: 32
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff 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
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
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 shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options
= "(null)"
(--) 3 mouse buttons found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'


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[Aaron M. Folmsbee]

Michael A. LaBrot <mlabrot <at> hegemony.com> writes:

>
> I, too, experienced the "could not open default font 'fixed'" problem
> and the FAQ did not help me either. I was able to run X after changing
> the Cygwin "Default Text File Type" from "DOS/text" to "Unix/binary"
> during setup. Consider this a bug report.
>

Running installer again, selecting 'unix/binary' then reinstalling all fonts
fixed this for me. Just changing to unix/binary didn't do the trick, needed to
reinstall fonts after that as well.




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[mgoh]

I had this problem as well.  Oddly, I had a mount of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts that was a "user"
mount in textmode -- and I cound't use "umount" to remove it (it would complain about
invalid path, or something).  I searched the registry for the mount, but didn't find it (I found
all the others).  To fix the problem, I first quit any running cygwin programs, then from a CMD
shell, I mounted another user mount over the top of the old one, which I was THEN able to
umount.  After THAT, I remounted /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts in binmode (system mount), THEN I reinstalled
all the fonts (as mentioned here:  http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof).

THAT, FINALLY fixed my problem.

This all started when I ran the cygwin setup program to update various versions of things
(that's what killed it).

I was suprised that not more people had reported this, as I'm running a pretty stock install.

    - Matt Goheen

Michael A. LaBrot wrote:

I, too, experienced the "could not open default font 'fixed'" problem
and the FAQ did not help me either. I was able to run X after changing
the Cygwin "Default Text File Type" from "DOS/text" to "Unix/binary"
during setup. Consider this a bug report.

______________________________
"Javier Delgadillo" wrote:
All,

I've been trying to install Cygwin X on a Win XP machine for the last 2
days and can't get it to work.  I've done google searches for possible
solutions but the posts I've found seem outdated and no longer apply.

This appears to be a problem with the "could not open default font
'fixed'" error message.  All of the posts I've seen regarding this imply
there is a problem with the mounts, but I've got 2 other installs here
that do not mount the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory.  So I'm not
sure if those errors still apply.

I'm not sure what to try next as the instructions here
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof don't
seem to solve the problem for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    [stuff trimmed]

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'


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Javier Delgadillo
javi at javidel.org
http://javidel.org/

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

On 10/12/2006, mgoh wrote:

> I had this problem as well. Oddly, I had a mount of
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts that was a "user" mount in textmode -- and I
> cound't use "umount" to remove it (it would complain about invalid path, or
> something). I searched the registry for the mount, but didn't find it (I
> found all the others). To fix the problem, I first quit any running cygwin
> programs, then from a CMD shell, I mounted another user mount over the top
> of the old one, which I was THEN able to umount. After THAT, I remounted
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts in binmode (system mount), THEN I reinstalled all
> the fonts (as mentioned here:
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof). THAT,
> FINALLY fixed my problem. This all started when I ran the cygwin setup
> program to update various versions of things (that's what killed it). I was
> suprised that not more people had reported this, as I'm running a pretty
> stock install.

See the '-f' flag for 'mount'.

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[mgoh]

> See the '-f' flag for 'mount'.

I tried many times, but it did not work.  It would complain that the mount didn't exist.  I had
to do the little dance described above...

[Igor Peshansky]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, mgoh wrote:

> > See the '-f' flag for 'mount'.
>
> I tried many times, but it did work.  It would complain that the mount
> didn't exist.  I had to do the little dance described above...

Read the mount man page on the difference between user and system mounts.
If that is not the problem, please read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
for instructions on how to provide enough information for us to be able to
help.  FWIW, this belongs on the main Cygwin list.
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