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Re: Problem with starting X server
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 23:55 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > This mount used to be routinely added by the X postinstall script. IIRC,
> > this has been fixed in X so that such a mount is no longer required.
> > Searching the list archives may unearth the relevant thread. However, the
> > bug may have crept back, or may not have been propagated to the latest
> > Cygwin/X release.
>
> I suspect that some bugfixes which were present in the CYGWIN branch on
> freedesktop are missing in the branch which was the source for the
> latest release.
>
> Most likely fonts.dir is not written in binmode. Patching mkfontscale
> might help or forcing mkfontscale to work in binmode when started from
> font-update.
I see that the fix on the CYGWIN branch is to do this. So I'll make the
change in the X.org repos.
Alan.
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