On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Dan Moulding <dmould...@gmail.com> wrote: > I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and > rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating > I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font > problems. Please note that I successfully installed the *new* Cygwin/X > a couple of months ago, and previously resolved some of the seemingly > more common font problems (like "boxes" showing up in emacs). > > 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). >
I updated to the latest packages today (2/10/09) because I was hopeful that some of the recent font-related X.org fixes would have solved this problem. After updating, I still received the "Unable to load any usable iso8859 font" error. I decided to uninstall *all* X11 related packages from my system, and then reinstall a new X.org installation by selecting just those things I knew I would need (e.g. fonts) and things I'd want (e.g. emacs-X11, xterm, etc.). I did exactly that and it seems to have worked. I no longer get the "Unable to load any usable iso8859 font" error when trying to start xterm. On a side note, during this process it became apparent that the plain emacs package depends on xemacs-emacs-common which depends on xemacs which depends on a bunch of X.org stuff. This seems to imply that you can no longer install emacs without also installing X. This doesn't seem right, but to be honest, I can't remember if, prior to the major X.org update, installing emacs without X worked because I've always used them both. Cheers, -- Dan Moulding -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/