Re: xinit: The application has failed to start because cygfreetype-6.dll

[Constantine <cnst at rbcmail dot ru>]

On 2003-11-03 00:26, Constantine wrote:

> Harold wrote:
>
> > Constantine wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > After I have updated my installation today, and when I am running 
> > > xinit now, I get a Windows window with the message that 
> > > "cygfreetype-6.dll was not found".
> > >
> > > After I did the following, everything worked again:
> > >
> > > cd /usr/X11R6/bin/
> > > cp cygfreetype-9.dll cygfreetype-6.dll
> >
> > Constantine,
> >
> > Hmm... I would appreciate it if you could help me to figure out what 
> > the real problem is here.  The new XFree86-bin-4.3.0-7 package no 
> > longer contains cygfreetype-9.dll, as this library is now distributed 
> > as part of the freetype2/libfreetype26 package.  freetype2 defines 
> > the version of the freetype2 library as '6' instead of the '9' that 
> > XFree86 was using as the library version.  I added a copy of 
> > cygfreetype-9.dll to the XFree86-lib-compat package for those that 
> > need the old library.
> >
> > However, I want to know what application was failing in your xinit 
> > scripts.  There should not be an application that requires 
> > cygfreetype-9.dll in the default script.  Have you modified your 
> > script?  What program are you launching that requires this DLL?  Are 
> > you launching emacs?
> >
> > I would like to get any old applications that use cygfreetype-9.dll 
> > rebuilt.
>
> No, everything should be by default, except for my ~/.xinit file.
>
> I just erased that file, ran the installer again (it downloaded only 
> 'libfontconfig1-2.2.0-1.tar.bz2' and 'libfreetype26-2.1.5-1.tar.bz2'), 
> and it seems to work fine.
> It is very strange, since the setup.ini files from yesterday and today 
> seem to be the same, and I did not selected nor deselected any option 
> neither today nor yesterday. Well, I guess it is the people who make 
> the setup.exe to blame.

When I wrote 'that file', I was referring to 'cygfreetype-6.dll', i.e. a 
copy of 'cygfreetype-9.dll', not to my ~/.xinitrc.
In any case, here is my ~/.xinitrc:
<<
xhost + 192.168.0.18
ssh myloginhere@192.168.0.18 "setenv DISPLAY 192.168.0.1:0; startkde"
>>

Cheers,
Constantine.

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