A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.

[rwd@dslextreme.com]

                            
H:\UNIX\cygwinPKGdir
H:\UNIX\cygwin

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A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 4.3.0.50
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command-line:
XWin -multiwindow

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open /tmp/XWin.log
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Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 4.3.0.50
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -multiwindow 

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1024 dwHeight: 768
winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1024 h: 768
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1024 h: 768
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 1 768 1024
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1023 h 768 r 1023 l 0 b 768 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16 size image: 1572864
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1024
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM.
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitWM - Returning.
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
InitOutput - Returning.
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) 
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

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H:\UNIX\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat

(REM removed)
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@echo off
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=H:\UNIX\cygwin
SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%

if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH
attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0

:CLEANUP-FINISH
if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix

if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto OS_NT
echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me

goto STARTUP
:OS_NT
echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

:STARTUP
start XWin -multiwindow
run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash

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                             thanks ,

                                  rwd

Searched the web for  "could not open default font 'fixed'".

http://www.tridiavnc.com/list-mailist/1998-03/0415.html
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote:
> I tried uncompressing the fonts is misc, but that didn't help. What
> am I doing wrong. The font path is correct!
My apologies if you know this already - it's not enough to just uncompress
the fonts, the fonts.dir/fonts.scale files must be updated with the new,
uncompressed filenames.

after font expansion of 

H:\UNIX\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts\misc


A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 4.3.0.50
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command-line:
XWin -multiwindow
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XWin.log
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Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 4.3.0.50
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -multiwindow 

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0

Fatal server error:
InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.

winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress


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again


________________


Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 4.3.0.50
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -multiwindow 

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1024 dwHeight: 768
winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1024 h: 768
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1024 h: 768
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 1 768 1024
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1023 h 768 r 1023 l 0 b 768 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16 size image: 1572864
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1024
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM.
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitWM - Returning.
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
InitOutput - Returning.
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) 
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress


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