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 solutions but the posts I've found seem outdated and no longer apply.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