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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: xmoon2000@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: x11 install
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5149FFDC.7040208@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363686491383-97061.post@n5.nabble.com>

On 19/03/2013 09:48, Maninmoon wrote:
> Hi I am having trouble with installing x11. I want to run GNUplot.
> 
> I get this error:
> 
> $ startxwin
[...]
> moon sky@LskyHome2 ~
> $ Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Error: Aborting: no font found

It looks like xterm is not able to start because some package providing a
required font is not correctly installed.

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Can you provide cygcheck -svr output as suggested in the link above, please?

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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       reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1363686491383-97061.post@n5.nabble.com>
2013-03-20 18:28 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2013-03-22 20:00   ` Conflicted Win7 McBroom, Robert C
2013-03-22 20:50     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
2013-03-22 20:52       ` Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
2013-03-25 18:32       ` McBroom, Robert C

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