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RE: Returned mail: User unknown


You need to install CID fonts.
SecurityPolicy etc are warnings, you can ignore them.  How did you extract
The tar.bz2 archives?  
Are you on a text or binary mounted cygwin-drive?
Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mellor, Mike [mailto:Mike.mellor@tbe.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:49 PM
> To: Harold Hunt; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Returned mail: User unknown
> 
> Harold -
> 
> I did have the Win 95 resolution set to 8bpp, changing it to 16 allowed
> XWin
> to start up, but it isn't working correctly yet.  All that shows up is a
> checkered screen.  Here are the error messages that I get:
> 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> .
> .
> .
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
> from list!
> 
> 
> I do not have an xserver or CID directories.
> 
> I also noticed that the /usr/X11R6 directory is actually labeled
> usr/X11r6.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:11 PM
> To: Mellor, Mike; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Returned mail: User unknown
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> > Exception: STATUS_INTEGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO at eip=004A66EC
> 
> It would be helpful if you could include the output of XWin prior to the
> STATUS_INTEGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO.
> 
> However, this error is almost always the result of trying to run XWin on a
> Windows machine with the display configured to display 8 bits per pixel.
> Cygwin/XFree86 has no code to support 8 bits per pixel and it often
> crashes
> with this message when a user starts XWin in 8 bits per pixel mode.
> 
> Thank you for your interest in the project, and please report if your
> problem is solved,
> 
> Harold


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