Re: Cygwin X fails to start

["Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com>]

On 10/12/2006, mgoh wrote:
> I had this problem as well. Oddly, I had a mount of 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts that was a "user" mount in textmode -- and I 
> cound't use "umount" to remove it (it would complain about invalid path, or 
> something). I searched the registry for the mount, but didn't find it (I 
> found all the others). To fix the problem, I first quit any running cygwin 
> programs, then from a CMD shell, I mounted another user mount over the top 
> of the old one, which I was THEN able to umount. After THAT, I remounted 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts in binmode (system mount), THEN I reinstalled all 
> the fonts (as mentioned here: 
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof). THAT, 
> FINALLY fixed my problem. This all started when I ran the cygwin setup 
> program to update various versions of things (that's what killed it). I was 
> suprised that not more people had reported this, as I'm running a pretty 
> stock install.

See the '-f' flag for 'mount'.

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