Sounds like you need to mount your drives in binary mode, and retry the installation as the font files don't quite work right in text mode.
Alan. On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:39:21PM -0000, Nikolay Metchev wrote: > This is what XWin.log says: > ddxProcessArgument () - Initializing default screens > winInitializeDefaultScreens () - w 1024 h 768 > ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 5 i: 1 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f > winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking > winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per > pixel > winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 716 1024 > winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 716 1024 > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient w 1018 h 691 r 1018 l 0 b > 691 t 0 > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - Returning > winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 4072 > winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 32 > winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32 > winRandRInit () > winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () > winScreenInit () - returning > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Hourihane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Nikolay Metchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:10 PM > Subject: Re: Cannot start XServer > > > > What does /tmp/XWin.log have to say ? > > > > Alan. > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:37:49PM -0000, Nikolay Metchev wrote: > > > I sent the e-mail below . I have been asked to provide additional > > > information. I am using Windows XP. I have a TCP/IP LAN using internet > > > connection sharing. I do not use Zone Alarm or any other personal > firewall > > > tool. I still get the error message listed below. > > > > > > > I have installed the 4.2.0 version of Cygwin/XFree86 on my Windows XP > > > laptop > > > > using a second monitor and when I tried to run the XServer a window of > > > some > > > > sort appeared and then disappeared leaving this message: > > > > $ ./startxwin.bat > > > > startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000 > > > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server > > > > "127.0.0.1:0.0" > > > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server > > > > "127.0.0.1:0.0" > > > > > > > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > > > > > > > any ideas what I am doing wrong? > > > > > >
