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Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)
- From: Steve Freeland <caucasatron at yahoo dot ca>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: M dot Janczak at adbglobal dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:13:55 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)
- Reply-to: Steve Freeland <caucasatron at yahoo dot ca>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Apologies for not attaching this to the correct thread; I'm not subscribed to the list and don't really know how I should go about that. But anyways.
Regarding the "Could not open default font 'fixed'" message: Stephen A. Goulet mentioned that he was able to fix the problem by following the instructions in the FAQ, substituting /usr for the non-existant /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 mount point. Mariusz Janczak then replied that he didn't have a /usr mount point either. I was in the same situation.
The solution I found was to just umount *everything*: First /usr/lib, then /, and /usr/bin last because that's where the umount exe is located. *Then* reinstall the font packages. That fixed it for me. I suspect I only really needed to umount /, but I haven't tested that hypothesis.
I'd sure like to know what the underlying problem is, though, it seems odd for this issue to appear out of nowhere in a working system.
- Steve
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