XWin startup problem

[Simon Marchese]

I can't start XWin successfully on WinXP. I have re-installed and re-booted so often that I'm wearing out my disk and the restart icon. Yes, I have tried the advice in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof and it has not helped.

I would be very grateful for any advice. I have included more information below. Please let me know if there is anything I can add.

simon@TheBeast ~
$ for DIR in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*; do echo ; ls  | wc -l; done
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
   1899
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
   1899
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
     26
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
     61
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
     86
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings
     35
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
    447
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util
     16

simon@TheBeast ~
$ font-update
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi is up-todate. skipping
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi is up-todate. skipping
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc is up-todate. skipping
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID is not a directory. skipping
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF is up-todate. skipping
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 is up-todate. skipping
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic is up-todate. skipping
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local is not a directory. skipping

simon@TheBeast ~
$ XWin
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.1.0-1

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

(WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1152 h 864
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin

winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar
ed memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4"
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
(--) 3 mouse buttons found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

simon@TheBeast ~
$ ls */fonts.dir
100dpi/fonts.dir  TTF/fonts.dir    cyrillic/fonts.dir
75dpi/fonts.dir   Type1/fonts.dir  misc/fonts.dir
$ ls */fonts.alias
100dpi/fonts.alias  75dpi/fonts.alias  cyrillic/fonts.alias  misc/fonts.alias
simon@TheBeast /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
$ grep ^fixed */fonts.alias
cyrillic/fonts.alias:fixed  -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-koi8-r
misc/fonts.alias:fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

simon@TheBeast /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
$ grep ^fixed misc/fonts.alias
grep "\-misc\-fixed\-medium\-r\-semicondensed\-\-13\-120\-75\-75\-c\-60\-iso8859\-1" */fonts.dir
misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-10
misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-11
misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-13
misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-14
misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
misc/fonts.dir:6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-16
$ ls -l misc/6x13-*
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4637 Oct  5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4551 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4409 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4689 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4502 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4614 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4547 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4519 Oct  5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4418 Oct  5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4572 Oct  5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4541 Oct  5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4486 Oct  5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4035 Oct  5 15:27 misc/6x13-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        4645 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
-rwxr-x---+   1 simon    Users        5057 Oct  5 15:28 misc/6x13-KOI8-R.pcf.gz