From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28104 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2004 00:42:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28085 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2004 00:42:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys22.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2004 00:42:59 -0000 Received: from [207.179.68.222] (helo=msu.edu) by sys22.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1AdfJC-0005s0-Kn for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:42:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3FFA048A.8000501@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:42:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start References: <741C3B0BAF7B1F4F8FCC50AC4766CBF0248AEF@phoenix.ossconnexn.com> In-Reply-To: <741C3B0BAF7B1F4F8FCC50AC4766CBF0248AEF@phoenix.ossconnexn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00105.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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 >>> >>> >> >