problem using cygwin

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 abalasub@it.uts.edu.au wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Im a student at UTS Sydney and I downloaded Cygwin to connect to the
> student computer called Charlie which is a Solaris machine.But I get an
> error message saying a fatal error has occured.I used the following
> command line:
> 
> XWin.exe -query charlie.

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

if the logfile states 
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'

get the xorg-x11-bin-6.8.1.0-2 package
remove /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.dir
run font-update

bye
	ago
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