From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 83926 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2015 16:33:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 83915 invoked by uid 89); 12 Sep 2015 16:33:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: know-smtprelay-omc-10.server.virginmedia.net Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-10.server.virginmedia.net (HELO know-smtprelay-omc-10.server.virginmedia.net) (80.0.253.74) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:33:34 +0000 Received: from DELLM6700 ([82.40.235.5]) by know-smtprelay-10-imp with bizsmtp id GGZW1r00D07fic201GZW5l; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:33:32 +0100 X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=MJad45tl c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=3mmLVpx7njBr2j334fpFjQ==:117 a=3mmLVpx7njBr2j334fpFjQ==:17 a=tdKlQm_5AAAA:8 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=vmVZhK3XkIyCs1nTWDMA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 From: "Fergus" To: Cc: Subject: Re: Fonts reorganization and additions Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000c01d0ed78$bbe74a20$33b5de60$@bonhard.uklinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 >> I re-installed my two font packages: >> xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75 >> xorg-x11-fonts-misc OK, sorry, I've tried every which way to recover from the consequences of this reorganisation including the re-installation described above by Jim Reisert using setup.ini timestamped 1442007529; but still got the "Error writing file" message >> Unable to extract >> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 followed by >> Unable to extract >> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-misc:unscaled:pri=10 During the re-installation; and then the same message as before >> Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct when starting xterm. Are users meant to be able to recover their glitch-free system using self-help (in which case can anybody please provide a recipe e.g. a sequenced re-installation?!) or are we awaiting a fix with a new timestamp? Just a question, not a nag ... thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple