From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32269 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2006 00:01:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 32261 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jul 2006 00:01:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (HELO smtp806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com) (217.12.12.196) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:01:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 6300 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2006 00:01:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?81.153.71.118?) (andy.j.rushton@btinternet.com@81.153.71.118 with login) by smtp806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Jul 2006 00:01:33 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.1.394 [268.10.1/389]); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:01:30 +0100 Message-ID: <44BD765A.9090603@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:01:00 -0000 From: Andy Rushton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xwin problem References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 List-Id: bobby barcenas wrote: > hello, > I have been using cygwin and the x server very well for a couple of > years now, thank you, but recently I tried to update some of my files > because i was unable to run and opengl dependent file on xwin. so i > looked online and ran setup.exe and installed the appropate files. > however, when that setup was compete i could no longer run xwin. > whenever i type startx into cygwin, i get an error message because it > cant find a font in a directory that does not exist on my computer: > /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/Cid Actually the log shows: ------------- Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' ------------- The first bit about dah/dit/dah/CID is just a warning. The other message is the error. This issue has just been resolved in the thread "Problem with starting X server". -- Andy Rushton, Southampton, UK Fortune and love befriend the bold. -- Ovid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/