A colleague installed the full Cygwin installation onto a laptop on Monday. He can't start X because of what looks like the "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" mentioned at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof
However, we've checked that the fonts are installed; mount shows that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is used, and the directory contains about 400 files in the misc subdirectory. X won't start. Any other suggestions? This is on a new Dell laptop, running at about 1600x1200, and XP. $ startx XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. $ cat /tmp/XWin.log Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 4.3.0.63 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1920 h 1200 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1920 dwHeight: 1200 winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1920 h: 1200 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1920 h: 1200 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 86 1200 1920 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 86 1200 1920 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1834 h 1200 r 1834 l 0 b 1200 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1834 height: 1200 depth: 32 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1834 height: 1200 depth: 32 size image: 8803200 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1834 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM. InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitWM - Returning. winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () InitOutput - Returning. 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) (EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (00000409) is unknown Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress luke
Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 4.3.0.63 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1920 h 1200 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1920 dwHeight: 1200 winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1920 h: 1200 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1920 h: 1200 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 86 1200 1920 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 86 1200 1920 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1834 h 1200 r 1834 l 0 b 1200 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1834 height: 1200 depth: 32 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1834 height: 1200 depth: 32 size image: 8803200 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1834 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM. InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitWM - Returning. winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () InitOutput - Returning. 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) (EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (00000409) is unknown Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress