Cygwin X fails to start

[Aaron]

Michael A. LaBrot <mlabrot <at> hegemony.com> writes:

> 
> I, too, experienced the "could not open default font 'fixed'" problem 
> and the FAQ did not help me either. I was able to run X after changing 
> the Cygwin "Default Text File Type" from "DOS/text" to "Unix/binary" 
> during setup. Consider this a bug report.
> 

Running installer again, selecting 'unix/binary' then reinstalling all fonts
fixed this for me. Just changing to unix/binary didn't do the trick, needed to
reinstall fonts after that as well.




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