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Re: Suggested FAQ Update: 6.5. Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:29:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: Suggested FAQ Update: 6.5. Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
- References: <001301c1e40a$d8998470$312a2a0a@CR551617A>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:19:37PM -0400, Warren Postma wrote:
>The FAQ listing for section 6.5. Fatal server error: could not open default
>font 'fixed'
>does not work. For one thing, the suggested remedy does NOT change the
>mounting of the /usr directory.
>
>A more direct fix would be to update the Xinstall.sh to do the following:
>
>1. Check mount output for either / or /usr mounted as textmode.
>
>2. Unmount the offending partition:
> umount /usr
> umount /
>3. Remount root or usr :
> mount --binary c:/cygwin /
> mount --binary c:/cygwin/usr /usr
If it is just a problem with the font directory then mounting just the
font directory would be less intrusive.
Less intrusive still might be to build xfs/XFree86 with /usr/lib/binmode.o .
This will force all reads to be in binmode automatically.
cgf