Re: Cygwin X fails to start

2006-10-28 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, mgoh wrote: See the '-f' flag for 'mount'. I tried many times, but it did work. It would complain that the mount didn't exist. I had to do the little dance described above... Read the mount man page on the difference between user and system mounts. If that is not the

Re: Cygwin X fails to start

2006-10-27 Thread mgoh
See the '-f' flag for 'mount'. I tried many times, but it did work. It would complain that the mount didn't exist. I had to do the little dance described above... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Cygwin-X-fails-to-start-tf2228903.html#a7037224 Sent from

Re: Cygwin X fails to start

2006-10-12 Thread mgoh
'fixed' -- Javier Delgadillo javi at javidel.org http://javidel.org/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Cygwin-X-fails-to-start-tf2228903.html#a6782673 Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Cygwin X fails to start

2006-10-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 10/12/2006, mgoh wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin X fails to start

2006-09-06 Thread Michael A. LaBrot
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

Cygwin X fails to start

2006-08-23 Thread Javier Delgadillo
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 I've done google searches for possible solutions but the posts I've found seem outdated and no longer apply.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'