xserv 4.3.0-29

xserv 4.3.0-29

[Christoph Leser]

Hi,

last week I installed ( first time installation )  Cygwin on a winows xp professional sp1. 

I had XWin.exe ( xserv 4.3.0-28 ) running with AIX and Linux Clients w/o modifying an config files, but I experienced similar ALT-Gr problems as described in the postings regarding xserv 4.3.0-29.

So I updated to 4.3.0-29 today.

Now XWin ( called from bash ) does not start any more. I see the main window for a short period of time.

No error message appears. Are there any logfiles
Best regards



Christoph Leser

Re: xserv 4.3.0-29

[Harold L Hunt II]

Christoph,

Send in /tmp/XWin.log.

Harold

Christoph Leser wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> last week I installed ( first time installation )  Cygwin on a winows xp professional sp1. 
> 
> I had XWin.exe ( xserv 4.3.0-28 ) running with AIX and Linux Clients w/o modifying an config files, but I experienced similar ALT-Gr problems as described in the postings regarding xserv 4.3.0-29.
> 
> So I updated to 4.3.0-29 today.
> 
> Now XWin ( called from bash ) does not start any more. I see the main window for a short period of time.
> 
> No error message appears. Are there any logfiles
> Best regards
> 
> 
> 
> Christoph Leser
> 

xserv 4.3.0-29

[Christoph Leser]

thanks for pointing me to /tmp/XWin.log

This shows, that the font directory is not properly installed.

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' )

I have no idea what has happened, maybe something wrong with xp?

Thanks

Christoph 

Re: xserv 4.3.0-29

[Harold L Hunt II]

Run 'mount' in a Cygwin bash shell.  You should see something that 
includes a line like the following:

C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type 
system (binmode)


If you see "type system" in that line, then run the following in your 
Cygwin bash shell:

umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

Else, run the following

umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts


The problem is that your mount-point for your fonts directory points to 
a dead or invalid directory and needs to be removed.

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.

Harold

Christoph Leser wrote:

> thanks for pointing me to /tmp/XWin.log
> 
> This shows, that the font directory is not properly installed.
> 
> 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' )
> 
> I have no idea what has happened, maybe something wrong with xp?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Christoph 
>