X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46412697.5060202@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:40:39 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070308 Fedora/1.5.0.10-2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problems with X, fonts, and clipboard module References: <6a72435r4rqjcmgdu9ejkth7ag0mk778l9 AT 4ax DOT com> In-Reply-To: <6a72435r4rqjcmgdu9ejkth7ag0mk778l9@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Robert Neville wrote: > I am not sure if this is the appropriate group, yet it has been the main resource for cygwin. In > addition, searching through these gmane newsgroups is not straightforward since Google groups do not > return them. Cygwin is not GMANE. Search the Cygwin email archives from Google by specifying "cygwin.com" as the domain. You'll get what you want. > Startx failed to initialize when it had been working in the past. I ran setup and the process may > have not completed (it was late). After running setup.exe again, I navigated to the System category > and reinstalled rebase. Then I reviewed the README file; kill all processes associated with cygwin; > ran ash; and typed /bin/rebaseall -v; the utility performed some actions and returned without > errors. > > I fired up a cygwin console and startx would still not initialize. The console gave me the following > font error. > > sageQueue trapped WM_QUIT message, exiting main loop. > winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. > > > I have also removed the -clipboard and multiplewindows arguments from the startx script; it did not > help. The clipboard module is the main advantage of running X for me. Startxwin.bat and starxwin.sh > do not launch Xwin either. Xwin should not conflicting with my firewall; since this system does not > have software firewall. > > After reinstalling X and all fonts, I mounted the font path and still receive this error. > > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li > st! > > The cygwin console appears fully functional. Please give me whatever insight you may have on these > scenarios. I have already spent two weeks troubleshooting these issues and need better guidance. I > can read the logs, but I am not familiar with the action necessary. > > > _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: 2048 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 > winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () > winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () > MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support > XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in > the kernel > (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) > (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" > (--) 5 mouse buttons found > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! > winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. > winProcEstablishConnection - Hello > winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. > winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. > winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 > winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. > winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 > winInitClipboard () > winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. > winClipboardProc - Hello > DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP > winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. > winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. > winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 > winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. > winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting. > winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting. > winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT message, exiting main loop. > winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. > > winClipboardIOErrorHandler! > This is really a Cygwin-X question. You should send it to the cygwin-xfree list. You can also look at the email archives for the Cygwin-X list. You'll find at least some discussion of this issue. It does appear that the problem is with the clipboard. Make sure you leave it out of your startup. Also, reading and following the problem reporting guidelines at the link below is always a good way to bootstrap a help session: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/