Re: Cygwin/X (XWin) falls down when using -fp option

[Jana Skleničková <j dot sklenda at gmail dot com>]

2009/2/3 Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>:
> Jana Skleničková wrote:
>>
>> Because I couldn't find anything unusual or helpful in the logs I
>> captured packets using Wireshark. So far I found this:
>>
>> -------- Solaris to Cygwin ------------------------
>> X11, Request, opcode: 51 (SetFontPath)
>> opcode: 51 (SetFontPath)
>> unused
>> request-lenth: 14
>> str-number-in-path: 2
>> unused
>> path
>>   "tcp/Solaris_IP_address:7100"
>>   "/etc/dc/config/xfonts/c"
>
>> It looks like the Solaris sends font path, that Cygwin doesn't understand.
>
> I guess this means your logon scripts are trying to add
> "/etc/dc/config/xfonts/c" to the font path (which isn't going to work very
> well as that directory doesn't exist on the Cygwin box) and possibly treats
> that as critical to a successful login.
>
> You might be able to work around this by creating the directory
> /etc/dc/config/xfonts/c on the cygwin host and running 'mkfontdir' there,
> but really you should fix the logon scripts :-)
>
> (Note that google suggests /etc/dc/config/xfonts/c is a typo for
> /etc/dt/config/xfonts/c)
>
>

I tried the workarounds you suggested with no success, unfortunately.
I can't do anything with the Solaris machine. There is no problem when
I approach Solaris from another comp, for example linux (Debian
distribution), the only problem is when I use Cygwin.

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