RE: Unable to connect to font server

2013-04-02 Thread Owen, Todd
Hi Jon,

Thanks for your advice. I've just tried installing Cygwin from the time
machine (circa 2010/10/15-101233) in order to use the version of
xorg-server that you mentioned. Unfortunately, I'm now encountering some
issue where XWin stops responding (regardless of whether I'm using the
font server or not).

So I'll fall back onto Plan B, which is copying the fonts from our
Solaris servers to each of the client machines.

Regards,
Todd


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Re: Unable to connect to font server

2013-03-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/03/2013 06:58, Owen, Todd wrote:
 I am trying to use an element of the form tcp/127.0.0.1:7100 in my
 font path, and it is being rejected. Furthermore, my testing shows that
 XWin is not even attempting to open a socket. Is the tcp transport
 still supported in the font path? Question 7.6 of the FAQ refers to this
 syntax, so presumably it worked at some stage. 

 # Conclusion: XWin never even made a connection to port 7100.

Sorry, font server font path elements are disabled because of an upstream bug
(See [1],[2])

If you really, truly need font server support, I would suggest you use
xorg-server 1.8.2-1 (unfortunately I can't arrange for this to be offered
through setup due to setup limitations, so you'll have to get it from the
cygwin time machine [3]), or agitate for this upstream bug to be fixed.

 I have tested this on two machines, both running Window XP Professional
 SP3. The difference is that on one machine Cygwin runs under a non-admin
 account, and on the other machine the account has local admin rights. I
 got the same results on both.
 
 Any idea what's going on?

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2012-09/msg0.html
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31501
[3] http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/#cygwintimemachine

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