Re: xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>]

Christoph,

Thanks for the confirmation.  I was really hoping that I fixed that 
problem for good :)

Harold

Christoph Leser wrote:

> Harold,
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> thanks for your immediate help. I did as you suggested and it worked out fine for me:
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> XWin 4.3.0-29 is now running AND there is no problem with Alt-Gr anymore.
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> Thanks to you and all the people providing the great cygwin stuff
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> Happy New Year
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> Christoph
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>>Run 'mount' in a Cygwin bash shell. You should see something that includes a > line like the following:
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>>C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode)
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>>If you see "type system" in that line, then run the following in your Cygwin > bash shell:
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>>umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
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>>Else, run the following
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>>umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
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>>The problem is that your mount-point for your fonts directory points to a dead or invalid directory and needs to be removed.
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>>You know need to re-run Cygwin's setup.exe and make sure that the XFree86-fenc and XFree86-fnts packages are installed or re-installed.
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>>Harold
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> Christoph Leser wrote:
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>>>thanks for pointing me to /tmp/XWin.log
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>>>This shows, that the font directory is not properly installed.
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>>>When I try to reinstall, the installer hangs when trying to create the sub >> drirectories. ( As a matter of fact I cannot create /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts >> in bash,, gives 'mkdir: cannot create directory 'fonts': No such file or >>directory' )
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>>>I have no idea what has happened, maybe something wrong with xp?
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>>>Thanks
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>>>Christoph 
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