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Re: Another X crash on startup


luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:

A colleague installed the full Cygwin installation onto a laptop on
Monday. He can't start X because of what looks like the "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" mentioned at
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof


However, we've checked that the fonts are installed; mount shows that
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is used, and the directory contains about 400
files in the misc subdirectory.


X won't start.  Any other suggestions?  This is on a new Dell laptop,
running at about 1600x1200, and XP.

None needed:


Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

This is exactly what is described in the second half of the FAQ entry you pointed to above. You are going to have to follow *exactly* the steps described in that answer.


Harold


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