Thanks for the confirmation. I was really hoping that I fixed that problem for good :)
Harold
Christoph Leser wrote:
Harold,
thanks for your immediate help. I did as you suggested and it worked out fine for me:
XWin 4.3.0-29 is now running AND there is no problem with Alt-Gr anymore.
Thanks to you and all the people providing the great cygwin stuff
Happy New Year
Christoph
Run 'mount' in a Cygwin bash shell. You should see something that includes a > line like the following:
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode)
If you see "type system" in that line, then run the following in your Cygwin > bash shell:
umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
Else, run the following
umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
The problem is that your mount-point for your fonts directory points to a dead or invalid directory and needs to be removed.
You know need to re-run Cygwin's setup.exe and make sure that the XFree86-fenc and XFree86-fnts packages are installed or re-installed.
Harold
Christoph Leser wrote:
thanks for pointing me to /tmp/XWin.log
This shows, that the font directory is not properly installed.
When I try to reinstall, the installer hangs when trying to create the sub >> drirectories. ( As a matter of fact I cannot create /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts >> in bash,, gives 'mkdir: cannot create directory 'fonts': No such file or >>directory' )
I have no idea what has happened, maybe something wrong with xp?
Thanks
Christoph