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Re: broken install - font fixed
Jason Yee wrote:
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From: Jason Yee
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:28 PM
To: 'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Actually, there's no reason
to quote header lines at all. Avoid this and you don't need to do anything
else.
Subject: RE: broken install - font fixed
resend.
Yeah, I think that's obvious given the headers you included above.
So i had cygwin installed on my system with Unix line endings. I wanted
to change to dos line endings, so i did a reinstall using the same locally
downloaded package with dos line endings.
Did you have a _really_ good reason for doing this? Did you know for
sure that doing this was going to address a need you had? Are you
willing to accept the consequences of installing this way? If not,
I'd recommend wiping your installation again and reinstalling with
UNIX line endings. Installing with DOS line endings is highly
discouraged (the 'setup.exe' that will be used for the upcoming 1.7
version doesn't offer the option at all because it is such a bad
idea for the uninformed user.)
installed version was downloaded
to a local directory from the xmissions site on a windows xp system.
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof <http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof>
I tried the steps laid out in your faq.
$ mount
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type system (textmode,noumount)
p: on /cygdrive/p type system (textmode,noumount)
z: on /cygdrive/z type system (textmode,noumount)
$ umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
umount: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/: No such file or directory
And then reinstalling the x11 packages from setup.exe.
Actually, your reinstallation with DOS line endings has pretty
much doomed the recommended process to failure. But it wasn't
really needed anyway if you were wiping your installation and
reinstalling. But then you chose DOS line endings...
I still get the same error. Any ideas?
Yep. Try reinstalling from scratch with UNIX line endings.
You won't need to fiddle around with the process described in FAQ
entry then
If you _absolutely_need_ DOS line endings for some files,
mount a particular directory(s) as DOS afterwards. Don't
remount the default mount entries though. You'll just get
yourself back into a state that will bring you a world of
hurt.
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