Get IO Error opening file
Erich Dollansky
oceanare@pacific.net.sg
Mon Apr 28 02:26:00 GMT 2008
Hi,
one follows the other.
Try to find this file via Google or Yahoo, download it manually to the
location where cygwin stores its files on your machine and then try to
install it again.
This happens once in a while. Maybe the path is wrong or the file is
missing on the server.
Erich
Kjeld Bak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trying to download and install Cygwin with Cygwin/X, I get an IO Error
> opening 'xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.99.901-1.tar.bz2'. I have tried to install
> from 5-6 different mirrors - allways with the same bad result. I have
> tried to install 'xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.1.0-3.tar.bz2' as well and with same
> result. Are there any problems with these packets. All other packets
> download and install ok. I have now a running Cygwin but without X-term,
> because when I start 'startxwin.bat' I get the error: 'Fatal server
> error: could not open default font "fixed" '. Has anybody a suggestion
> as to what goes wrong?
>
> Kjeld
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