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RE: font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luc Ferran [mailto:Luc.FERRAN-EXTERNAL@gemplus.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:44 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: RE: font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X
> 
> Ok, I've found a solution in the mailing list.
> 
> To install Xfree86, I have to
> 
> - install cygwin 1.3.2
> - run Xinstall.sh
> - and then run tar manualy for Xfnts.tgz
> Then X works.
> 
> So I suspect Xinstall.sh.


I do not think Xinstall.sh is causing fonts corruption.  I tested
Xinstall.sh several times on my systems before posting and I did not have
any fonts corruption. Can you try the following on your system?  
Move the extract.exe out somewhere, (should not be in path) where
Xinstall.sh cannot find it.  Then try the following (assuming you have all
the archives Xinstall.sh in /tmp directory.)

cd /tmp
ln -s /usr/bin extract.exe
sh Xinstall.sh

If you still get fonts corruption then something else is going on, if you do
not then we need to investigate extract.exe.

Suhaib

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Luc
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> I do not understand what are you doing... mixing and matching fonts?
> You need to make sure your fonts files are not corruptd.  Isoxxx is
> not
> same
> as misc fonts.
> 
> Suhaib
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had a look on those 2 files in /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/misc/
> >
> > font.dir
> > ...
> > 7x14.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-
> 1
> > ...
> >
> > font.alias
> > 7x14         -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-
> 1
> >
> > I'm not an expert, but I thing there is something curious... one
> time
> > we
> > speack about iso10646 (I'don't have any file containing this name in
> > font dir) and an other time we speak about iso8859.
> > This is true ofr this line, but for many others.
> >
> > Note that I can't start X saying that -coud not open default font
> > 'fixed'- that's why I had look in those file.


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