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solutions but the posts I've found seem outdated and no longer apply.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@cygwin.com
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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Javier Delgadillo
javi at javidel.org
http://javidel.org/
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