Dan Moulding wrote:
This time, I was getting "Unable to load any usable iso8859 font" errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. I searched the FAQs and the web, but was unable to find any suggestions that led to a solution. At one point, while trying to fix the problem, I also got the "could not open default font 'fixed'" error, but none of the solutions listed in the FAQ were applicable (either the problem described was obviously not a match, or the solution, like re-installing all fonts, had already been tried).
This is really strange. "Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font" comes from Xt, when it has failed to load the requested font, it tries a fallback of "-*-*-*-R-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*", which should always match the built-in font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1" (aka fixed, which the server should refuse to start if it can't find)
As a last resort, I used the Cygwin setup log to figure out which packages had been updated, and rolled them all back to the versions I was previously using. Now my X applications are working fine again, so something in one of the updated packages definitely triggered this problem.
xorg-server-1.5.3-5 made a change to the way the built-in font-path element is made available, I suspect this is somehow causing problems.
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