X crashes without any error message
Alan Hourihane
alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk
Thu Mar 7 01:45:00 GMT 2002
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:39:26AM -0800, Sung-Ryul Kim wrote:
> I have installed the cygwin and xfree86 pgms on my Windows XP (a Korean
> language version). All others work fine. I have even tested usinf other
> commercial X servers and they work fine.
>
> But if I try to run the XWin.exe, it crashes without a message. The X
> server window appears for about a second, and then all is gone. Have anyone
> experienced something like this? I have looked around in the list and
> documentation but I cannot find any information.
>
Sounds like you've not mounted your drives in binary mode, as the fonts
can't be read by the server and exits immediately.
I hope Chris Faylor is reading this, is there any chance of cygwin
defaulting to binary mounts ? or is there some sinister reason for not
doing this ?
Alan.
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