From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8663 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2004 02:18:37 -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 8655 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2004 02:18:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cnnxn.com) (204.144.134.227) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 2004 02:18:36 -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: fatal IO error 104 on start Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: <741C3B0BAF7B1F4F8FCC50AC4766CBF0248AF4@phoenix.ossconnexn.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Greg Jewell" To: X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00123.txt.bz2 List-Id: Harold, Your suggestions fixed the problem -- thank you very much! Just a few notes: The second umount command gave me a "File or directory not found" error. I never installed the Cyrillic fonts, so I didn't "reinstall" that package. Other than that, I did everything exactly as you asked. Thanks again! Greg Jewell -----Original Message----- From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:43 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start Follow these steps: 1) Open Cygwin bash shell. 2) In bash shell, run the following two commands: umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts 3) Rerun Cygwin's setup.exe, select 'Reinstall' for any of the following=20 packages that were already installed: XFree86-f100 XFree86-fcyr XFree86-fenc XFree86-fnts XFree86-fscl 4) Launch Cygwin/X again and test that the font problems have gone away. 5) Report your results here along with any deviations you had to make=20 from these instructions. Harold Greg Jewell wrote: > Thanks for the tip. Looking at the log file, it appears that this is the= pertinent error message: >=20 > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress > winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress >=20 > Any ideas? I installed the default XFree86 packages. >=20 >=20 > Greg >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu] >>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 13:58 >>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com >>Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start >> >> >>Greg, >> >>Look at /tmp/XWin.log. >> >>Harold >> >>Greg Jewell wrote: >> >> >>>Hi All, >>> >>>I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to=20 >> >>start the X server. Each time I try (using startx), I receive=20 >>the following error: >> >>>XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X=20 >> >>server ":0.0" >> >>> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. >>> >>>I searched the archives and saw that others were having the=20 >> >>same problem at the end of November/beginning of December, but=20 >>no solution was offered. >> >>>I downloaded the packages from a couple of different sources=20 >> >>this morning, but none of them produced different results.=20=20 >>Other than the few times that I've installed the software this=20 >>morning, cygwin had not been on this machine previously.=20=20 >>(It's a new box.) >> >>>Does anybody know how to resolve this? >>> >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Greg Jewell >>> >>> >> >=20