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Re: startxwin.bat fails: could not open default font 'fixed' (XP, FAQ 8.4 N/A)


On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Brett Harris wrote:

> > I have this in my mount table that you are missing:
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type
> > system (binmode)
> >
> > Could you try that?
> >
> > I snipped out lots of your data just to save space.
> >
> > -Jason
>
> Performed the following steps and then tried to run startxwin.bat, no
> change though.
>
> -Brett
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> harris@CHICAGO ~
> $ mount -bs "C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts" /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>
> harris@CHICAGO ~
> $ mount
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
> (binmo
> de)
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount)
> x: on /cygdrive/x type system (binmode,noumount)
> y: on /cygdrive/y type system (binmode,noumount)
> z: on /cygdrive/z type system (binmode,noumount)
>
> harris@CHICAGO ~
> $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
>
> harris@CHICAGO /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> $ ls
> 100dpi  75dpi  TTF  Type1  cyrillic  encodings  misc  util

You forgot to reinstall the fonts packages after mounting the directory
binmode.
	Igor
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