Problems launching X

["Jose Luis Gomez Dans" <josegomez at gmx dot net>]

Hi!

I have installed cygwin/X in my secondary hard disk (e:\cygwin) on Win2k as
a normal user (i.e., not administrator) and while everything worked
beautifully last week, today I cannto launch X using startwinx.sh or startx.
I get the following message at the end of the startx output:
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

I have checked the FAQ, and tried to solve the problem along the lines in
that document. First, the output from mount that shou
$ mount
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
(binmode)
e:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
e:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
e:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount)
[...]

I have tried to umount the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory, but I get a
permission denied problem. In fact, the fonts directory does not exist on
this directory.

Previously to this installation, cygwin used to reside on c:\cygwin, and the
/usr/X11R6... directory seems to point to c:\cygwin, ratheer than to
e:\cygwin (where it now resides), but I don't know where cygwin gets its
mount table from. I suspect that this is where the problem lies.

Can anyone shed any light on this problem?

Many thanks,
José

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