From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19845 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2003 07:47:52 -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 19838 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2003 07:47:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO win2000.sup-logistik.de) (213.160.23.139) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Dec 2003 07:47:51 -0000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Re: xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4F698AE6FB425D4A8879766D19E1F929055E1A@win2000.sup-logistik.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Christoph Leser" To: X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00408.txt.bz2 List-Id: Harold, thanks for your immediate help. I did as you suggested and it worked out fi= ne for me: XWin 4.3.0-29 is now running AND there is no problem with Alt-Gr anymore. Thanks to you and all the people providing the great cygwin stuff Happy New Year Christoph > Run 'mount' in a Cygwin bash shell. You should see something that include= s 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 Cyg= win > 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 s= ub >> drirectories. ( As a matter of fact I cannot create /usr/X11R6/lib/X1= 1/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=20