From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 115758 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2015 21:59:04 -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 115745 invoked by uid 89); 12 Sep 2015 21:59:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 21:59:02 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t8CLx0qA013743 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:59:00 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.7] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t8CLwx3H002479 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:59:00 -0400 Subject: Re: Fonts reorganization and additions To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000c01d0ed78$bbe74a20$33b5de60$@bonhard.uklinux.net> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <55F4A023.4090407@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 21:59:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000c01d0ed78$bbe74a20$33b5de60$@bonhard.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00209.txt.bz2 On 9/12/2015 12:33 PM, Fergus wrote: >>> 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. I'm sure this will be fixed properly in due course. In the meantime, here's a workaround: 1. Create the directory /etc/X11/fontpath.d . 2. Create a file in that directory. [This is to prevent deletion of the directory during step 3.] 3. Reinstall xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75 and xorg-x11-fonts-misc. Ken -- 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