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Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Hello Jon,
Thank you for your reply. To answer your questions:
?? 1. I have installed all fonts... My typical Cygwin installation is "install", i.e., everything gets selected,
?????? both for download and installation. I have found all fonts in the right places. Only the fonts.dir files
?????? were missing.
?? 2. Checking /var/log/setup.log... A good idea! It says up-front:
?????? "Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed,
???????or we don't have access."
?????? but then keeps going. Everything gets installed with no complaints. Then we get to postinstalls
?????? and... every one ends with
?????? "abnormal exit: exit code=128"
?????? One, catdoc.sh, flags exit code 129,?and another one,?hicolor-icon-theme.sh, does not flag
?????? an abnormal exit at all. All X11 related postinstall scrips, xinit.sh, X-start-menu-icons.sh,
???????x3270.sh, xfig.sh, xinetd.sh, and xpdf.sh flag 128 on exit.
?????? Eventually the log says "Installation Complete" and that's it: Here is the excerpt:
2009/02/18 17:40:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh
2009/02/18 17:42:04 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2009/02/18 17:42:04 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/X-start-menu-icons.sh
2009/02/18 17:43:38 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2009/02/18 17:43:38 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/x3270.sh
2009/02/18 17:45:12 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2009/02/18 17:45:12 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/xfig.sh
2009/02/18 17:46:46 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2009/02/18 17:46:46 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/xinetd.sh
2009/02/18 17:48:20 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2009/02/18 17:48:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/xpdf.sh
2009/02/18 17:49:54 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2009/02/18 17:49:54 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/zsh-profile.sh
2009/02/18 17:51:28 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2009/02/18 18:12:17 note: Installation Complete
2009/02/18 18:12:17 Ending cygwin install
cygcheck --sysinfo lists the following font packages:
font-adobe-dpi100?????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-adobe-dpi75??????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-adobe-utopia-dpi100??????? 1.0.1-1
font-adobe-utopia-dpi75???????? 1.0.1-1
font-adobe-utopia-type1???????? 1.0.1-1
font-alias????????????????????? 1.0.1-1
font-arabic-misc??????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bh-dpi100????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bh-dpi75?????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi100 1.0.0-1
font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75? 1.0.0-1
font-bh-ttf???????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bh-type1?????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bitstream-dpi100?????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bitstream-dpi75??????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bitstream-speedo?????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bitstream-type1??????????? 1.0.0-1
font-bitstream-vera-ttf???????? 1.10-1
font-cronyx-cyrillic??????????? 1.0.0-1
font-cursor-misc??????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-daewoo-misc??????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-dec-misc?????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-encodings????????????????? 1.0.2-1
font-ibm-type1????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-isas-misc????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-jis-misc?????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-micro-misc???????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-misc-cyrillic????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-misc-meltho??????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-misc-misc????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-mutt-misc????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-schumacher-misc??????????? 1.0.0-1
font-screen-cyrillic??????????? 1.0.1-1
font-sony-misc????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-sun-misc?????????????????? 1.0.0-1
font-util?????????????????????? 1.0.1-1
font-winitzki-cyrillic????????? 1.0.0-1
font-xfree86-type1????????????? 1.0.1-1
In any case, as I said above, it's not really a missing font problem, but a missing fonts.dir problem,
perhaps due to the aborted postinstall scripts flagged above.
The installation was carried out on Vista under an Administrator account with Account Checking
switched off and the fire wall switched off, too.
Other missing bits...
?? 1. no /etc/passwd and /etc/group: fixed this with mkpasswd and mkgroup.
?? 2. no /usr/share/misc/man.conf: copied the file from another machine; man works fine now.
???3. no dir file in /usr/share/info: made one with install-info; works fine now.
Other than the above hiccups, things seem to work. I have configured sshd without
problems, X11 works fine now, compilation works fine too, so far.
No such problems on the XP, on which I have installed the same Cygwin version only
a day earlier. The Vista cygcheck header is:
Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Feb 20 14:29:24 2009
Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1
Running under WOW64 on AMD64
Cheers,
Gustav
Zdzislaw Meglicki, OVPIT, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
http://perth.ovpit.indiana.edu/gustav
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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; zdzisiekm@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:03:13 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
> I have installed the latest version of Cygwin + X11 under Longhorn/Vista Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1,
> running under WOW64 on AMD64. Cygcheck says that "Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!)" but things seem
> to work, so far. I have downloaded the lot today, Feb 18, 2009, and the version numbers on X11 are:
>
> xorg-cf-files? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.0.2-7
> xorg-docs? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.4-1
> xorg-scripts? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.0.1-1
> xorg-server? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.5.3-6
> xorg-sgml-doctools? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.2-1
> xorg-util-macros? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.2.1-1
> xorg-x11-base? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 7.4-1
> xorg-x11-bin-dlls? ? ? ? ? ? ? 7.4-1
>
> The installation and post-install all went smoothly, but on trying to start X11, xterm, as invoked by startxwin.sh, would say "Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font" and exit. X11 would run though and xterm -fn fixed would come up just fine, sic. I have eventually tracked the problem to... there not being any fonts.dir files in the /usr/share/fonts subdirectories. After I had made these manually with mkfontdir the problem went away.
>
> Looks like a bug in post-install. But... I did not have this problem on XP, on which I had installed Cygwin and X11 yesterday only. So, it seems to be Vista specific.
This problem probably depends on which font packages you had installed, which I can't tell.
Can you check /var/log/setup.log to see if the post-install scripts for the font packages ran successfully or not?
> Another Vista post-install difference: there are no X11 entries in the start menu.
This should be installed by the xinit package, which I can't tell if you've installed or not.
If you have, perhaps you could check the setup.log similarly.
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