Could not open default font fixed

[Børge Strand-Bergesen]

 need your help to set up the X fonts properly. Following the
suggestions in the mailing list and on the web does not bring about a
solution.

This seems to be a recurring problem, despite reinstalling Cygwin from
scratch on a pretty clean XP box, the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/
font directory is not installed.

Yes, I have tried to follow the instructions given in
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof. The
umount... command gives "No such file or directory". A reinstall of
the font packages named in the faq brings neither a CID directory nor
a 'fixed' fonts to X.

I hope there is a solution to this problem. If you are unable to
provide a solution, I hope one of you can zip down the ...../fonts/CID
directory and send it to me so that I can use X again.

Please let me know if there are things I should do to help you figure
out what happened. This seems to be a large problem out there.


Best regards,

Borge


Contents of my fonts directory after a fresh install and following the
hints in the faq:
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$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
total 0
drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 10:59 100dpi
drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 10:50 75dpi
drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 10:59 TTF
drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 10:59 Type1
drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 11:00 cyrillic
drwxrwx---+ 3 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 10:49 encodings
drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 10:50 misc
drwxrwx---+ 2 Borge Strand Users 0 Feb  9 10:49 util
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The popup message from X:
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A fatal error ahs occured and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information

Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.99.901-4
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command-line:

X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard

<OK>
====================



The X startup message in Cygwin (and content of XWin.log):
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Borge Strand@ANGST ~
$ startx &
[1] 3756

Borge Strand@ANGST ~
$
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.99.901-4

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard

(WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
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 - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1600 height: 1200 depth: 32
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
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: "00000414" (00000414)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "Norwegian" (414), type "4"
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "no" Variant = "(null)"
Options = "(null)"
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
(--) 16 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'

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