Couldn't startx. "could not open default font 'fixed'"

I am unable to start cygwin due to an error message

"Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
removing from li
st!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress" (full log file attached).

I deleted cygwin and completely downloaded if from the Internet and
reinstalled all packeges (in stable version), but the problem still
remains.

(WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 depth: 32
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello

Re: Couldn't startx. "could not open default font 'fixed'"

Gosha Osipov schrieb:
> "Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from li
> st!
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress" (full log file attached).

> I deleted cygwin and completely downloaded if from the Internet and
> reinstalled all packeges (in stable version), but the problem still
> remains.

Check
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof

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xterm and gnuplot errors

I get the following errors:

$ startxwin.sh
...
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the 
display.
      2 [main] xterm 2996 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 
0x2E9000..0x2ECF40, done 0, windows pid 3972, Win32 error 487
xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
Reason: spawn: fork() failed

gnuplot> plot sin(x)
12103920 [main] gnuplot 1212 child_copy: linked dll data write copy 
failed, 0x9B9000..0x9BCF40, done 0, windows pid 3184, Win32 error 87

OS Windows Vista SP1
I still get these errors after having done:
UAC off
Uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2008
Turned on the Windows Firewall
Installed AVG antivirus free edition
Turned off Windows Defender  realtime protection

Attached cygcheck.out

These errors don't always occur.  Sometimes the commands work and xterm 
or the gnuplot window
appears.  Also there are still references to Symantec in the Windows 
registry.

unable to configure mpich2 in xterm - worked fine in non-X cygwin terminal

I recently tried to configure and make mpich2 for a parallel programming class.  I was working from an xterm
window running bash.  The configure script would hang on certain checks.  Another student had the exact
same problem on his machine too.

We discovered that we could configure and build the exact same sources from the standard non-X11 cygwin terminal.

Attached are the outputs from cygcheck -s -v -r taken both in the xterm window and the default Cygwin terminal.

Thanks,

Carl Anderson

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Rsync

Can someone please tell me how I can get rsync running on my cygwin install?

Thanks

Ronald W. Finnegan
Bioinformaticist, NIMH
Laboratory of Neurotoxicology
10 Center Drive Room 3D42
Bethesda, MD 20892-1262
301 594 3607

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Re: Rsync

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Ronald Finnegan <rwf <at> mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>
> Can someone please tell me how I can get rsync running on my cygwin install?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ronald W. Finnegan
> Bioinformaticist, NIMH
> Laboratory of Neurotoxicology
> 10 Center Drive Room 3D42
> Bethesda, MD 20892-1262
> 301 594 3607
>
>
Ronald, you should post that to the cygwin mailing list.  And be more
specific. AFAIK, rsync is a cygwin package.

Mirko

(I do not use rsync)

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Re: Rsync

>  Ronald, you should post that to the cygwin mailing list.  And be more
>  specific. AFAIK, rsync is a cygwin package.

Search the cygwin mail list archives.

I discovered a long standing issue with rsync on Cygwin that to the
best of my knowledge was never resolved, it fails under certain
conditions having to do with a sync error in the protocol which I
believe is related to an xon/xoff error on the local pipe.

I now use rsync under Linux/CentOS no problem and use SyncBack on
Windows when I need this sort of functionality.  Perhaps you might
have better luck.

Brett

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RE: unable to configure mpich2 in xterm - worked fine in non-X cygwin terminal

Anderson, Carl wrote on Monday, May 05, 2008 5:46 PM::

> I recently tried to configure and make mpich2 for a parallel
> programming class.  I was working from an xterm window running bash. 
> The configure script would hang on certain checks.  Another student
> had the exact same problem on his machine too.   
> 
> We discovered that we could configure and build the exact same
> sources from the standard non-X11 cygwin terminal. 

This almost certainly has nothing to do with X, so it's really OT
here.

My WAG is that your makefile invokes a native windows program at
some point, and that program doesn't understand cygwin's ptys.
I suggest searching the archives for the main cygwin list where 
you'll find similar questions have been asked (and answered) many 
times before.

Phil
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Re: Rsync

Hi Ronald,

--On 5. Mai 2008 15:35:18 -0400 Ronald Finnegan <rwf <at> mail.nih.gov> wrote:

>
> Can someone please tell me how I can get rsync running on my cygwin
> install?

What exactly is your problem? Do you have any errors you could provide?

Regards,

Dirk
>
> Thanks
>
> Ronald W. Finnegan
> Bioinformaticist, NIMH
> Laboratory of Neurotoxicology
> 10 Center Drive Room 3D42
> Bethesda, MD 20892-1262
> 301 594 3607
>
>
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Start X server crashes with dual monitors

Hello,

Windows XP Pro + SP3, cygwin 1.5.25-11,
GeForce8600 GT (NVIDIA chipset), 2 DVI monitors 1680*1050 as dual span.

My goal is to use cygwin as a good xterm for remote login.
For this I need to click "Start X Server (needed for emacs and surf)"
and then click xterm itself.
Unfortunately 5 attempts to install cygwin on this computer has failed -
- installation itself is ok, but I can't use it.

Clicking icon "Start X Server (needed for emacs and surf)" produces error:

"A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit"
XWin was started with the following command line:
/usr/X11/bin/XWin - multiwindow -clipboard -silent -dup-error

Below is /tmp/XWin.log

(WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq for more information
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 3360 height: 1050 depth: 16
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_initcyg
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned