A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.

[Harold L Hunt II]

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof

rwd@dslextreme.com wrote:

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> H:\UNIX\cygwinPKGdir
> H:\UNIX\cygwin
> 
> ________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
> Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 4.3.0.50
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> XWin was started with the following command-line:
> XWin -multiwindow
> 
> ________________________________________
> 
> open /tmp/XWin.log
> ________________
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 4.3.0.50
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -multiwindow 
> 
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1024 dwHeight: 768
> winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1024 h: 768
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1024 h: 768
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 1 768 1024
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1023 h 768 r 1023 l 0 b 768 t 0
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16 size image: 1572864
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1024
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f
> winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16
> winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> null screen fn ReparentWindow
> null screen fn RestackWindow
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM.
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
> InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
> InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
> winInitWM - Returning.
> winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
> winScreenInit - returning
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> InitOutput - Returning.
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) 
> Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
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> 
> H:\UNIX\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat
> 
> (REM removed)
> ___________________________________
> 
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET CYGWIN_ROOT=H:\UNIX\cygwin
> SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> 
> if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH
> attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> 
> :CLEANUP-FINISH
> if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix
> 
> if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto OS_NT
> echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me
> 
> goto STARTUP
> :OS_NT
> echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
> 
> :STARTUP
> start XWin -multiwindow
> run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
> 
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> 
> 
>                              thanks ,
> 
>                                   rwd
> 
> Searched the web for  "could not open default font 'fixed'".
> 
> http://www.tridiavnc.com/list-mailist/1998-03/0415.html
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote:
> 
>>I tried uncompressing the fonts is misc, but that didn't help. What
>>am I doing wrong. The font path is correct!
> 
> My apologies if you know this already - it's not enough to just uncompress
> the fonts, the fonts.dir/fonts.scale files must be updated with the new,
> uncompressed filenames.
> 
> after font expansion of 
> 
> H:\UNIX\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts\misc
> 
> 
> A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
> Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 4.3.0.50
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> XWin was started with the following command-line:
> XWin -multiwindow
> __________________________________________________
> 
> XWin.log
> __________________
> 
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 4.3.0.50
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -multiwindow 
> 
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
> 
> Fatal server error:
> InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.
> 
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> __________________________________________
> again
> 
> 
> ________________
> 
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 4.3.0.50
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -multiwindow 
> 
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1024 dwHeight: 768
> winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1024 h: 768
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1024 h: 768
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 1 768 1024
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1023 h 768 r 1023 l 0 b 768 t 0
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1023 height: 768 depth: 16 size image: 1572864
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1024
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f
> winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16
> winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> null screen fn ReparentWindow
> null screen fn RestackWindow
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM.
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
> InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
> InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
> winInitWM - Returning.
> winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
> winScreenInit - returning
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> InitOutput - Returning.
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) 
> Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> 
> 
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