RE: font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X

[Luc Ferran <Luc dot FERRAN-EXTERNAL at gemplus dot com>]

Ok, I've found a solution in the mailing list.

To install Xfree86, I have to

- install cygwin 1.3.2
- run Xinstall.sh
- and then run tar manualy for Xfnts.tgz
Then X works.

So I suspect Xinstall.sh.

Thanks

Luc

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I do not understand what are you doing... mixing and matching fonts?
You need to make sure your fonts files are not corruptd.  Isoxxx is not
same
as misc fonts.

Suhaib
> Hi all,
>
> I had a look on those 2 files in /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/misc/
>
> font.dir
> ...
> 7x14.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
> ...
>
> font.alias
> 7x14         -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
>
> I'm not an expert, but I thing there is something curious... one time
> we
> speack about iso10646 (I'don't have any file containing this name in
> font dir) and an other time we speak about iso8859.
> This is true ofr this line, but for many others.
>
> Note that I can't start X saying that -coud not open default font
> 'fixed'- that's why I had look in those file.