RE: Start X server crashes with dual monitors

["Phil Betts" <Phil dot Betts at ascribe dot com>]

Top posting - reformatted.

Krzysztof Syryczynski wrote on Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:11 AM::

>> Did you perform the steps in the FAQ for the fatal error message you
>> received? Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
>> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof
>
> Yes, it didn't work:
> umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> umount: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: No such file or directory
> But directory exist:
> ls /user/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> 100dpi 75dpi TTF Type1 cyrilic encodings misc util
> 
> (installed: Editors, System, Shels, X11; the rest default or
> installed) 
> 

You have almost certainly opted to install cygwin with text mode
mounts (DOS style line endings).  If this is the case (you can 
verify this using cygcheck), you have two options:

1) reinstall cygwin with binary mounts (UNIX style line endings)

This is the preferred option, because installing using textmode
mounts can cause all sorts of other problems unless you're very 
careful.

[ It is possible to change the mount mode without reinstalling, 
but there is a high probability that you have some files with DOS
style line endings, each of which would need converting with d2u.
Finding and fixing them all is error prone and more trouble than 
it's worth.]

2) Ensure that the fonts directory is on a binary mount.  To do 
this, you need to delete the contents of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts:

$ rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*

Then create a binary mount for the fonts:

$ mount -f -b "$(cygpath -m /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts)"
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

You then need to reinstall the fonts packages via setup.exe


Phil
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