Re: fatal IO error 104 on start

[Jim Scheef <jscheef@yahoo.com>]

Harold,

I had this same problem. Your suggestions resolved the font problem. The
first umount returned no messages, the second gave a "file not found" error.
Does this problem indicate trouble in the setup scripts? 

Best of all, I can type into xterm for the first time in months.

Is there someplace I can find more about the problems caused by installing
Microsoft Services for UNIX along with Cygwin Xfree86?

Thanks,
Jim
MSU '68

--- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> Follow these steps:
> 
> 1) Open Cygwin bash shell.
> 
> 2) In bash shell, run the following two commands:
> 
> umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> 
> 3) Rerun Cygwin's setup.exe, select 'Reinstall' for any of the following 
> packages that were already installed:
> 
> XFree86-f100
> XFree86-fcyr
> XFree86-fenc
> XFree86-fnts
> XFree86-fscl
> 
> 4) Launch Cygwin/X again and test that the font problems have gone away.
> 
> 5) Report your results here along with any deviations you had to make 
> from these instructions.
> 
> Harold
> 
> Greg Jewell wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the tip.  Looking at the log file, it appears that this is the
> pertinent error message:
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress
> > winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I installed the default XFree86 packages.
> > 
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> >>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 13:58
> >>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> >>Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start
> >>
> >>
> >>Greg,
> >>
> >>Look at /tmp/XWin.log.
> >>
> >>Harold
> >>
> >>Greg Jewell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi All,
> >>>
> >>>I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to 
> >>
> >>start the X server.  Each time I try (using startx), I receive 
> >>the following error:
> >>
> >>>XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X 
> >>
> >>server ":0.0"
> >>
> >>>        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> >>>
> >>>I searched the archives and saw that others were having the 
> >>
> >>same problem at the end of November/beginning of December, but 
> >>no solution was offered.
> >>
> >>>I downloaded the packages from a couple of different sources 
> >>
> >>this morning, but none of them produced different results.  
> >>Other than the few times that I've installed the software this 
> >>morning, cygwin had not been on this machine previously.  
> >>(It's a new box.)
> >>
> >>>Does anybody know how to resolve this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Greg Jewell
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> > 


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