cygwin-x-doc/faq cygwin-x-faq.xml,1.1,1.2 errors.xml,1.6,1.7

[Harold L Hunt II]

Committed by: harold

Update of /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq
In directory pdx:/tmp/cvs-serv9278/faq

Modified Files:
	cygwin-x-faq.xml errors.xml 
Log Message:
Update installable package list.

Index: cygwin-x-faq.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq/cygwin-x-faq.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -d -r1.1 -r1.2
--- a/cygwin-x-faq.xml	10 Mar 2004 00:52:01 -0000	1.1
+++ b/cygwin-x-faq.xml	16 Mar 2004 03:03:26 -0000	1.2
@@ -93,6 +93,14 @@
 <revhistory id="revision-history">
 
 <revision>
+<revnumber>1.0.15</revnumber>
+<date>2003-03-09</date>
+<authorinitials>huntharo at msu.edu</authorinitials>
+
+<revremark>Add answer for font problems.  Remove an old entry.</revremark>
+</revision>
+
+<revision>
 <revnumber>1.0.14</revnumber>
 <date>2004-03-08</date>
 <authorinitials>alexander.gottwald at s1999.tu-chemnitz.de</authorinitials>

Index: errors.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq/errors.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -d -r1.6 -r1.7
--- a/errors.xml	4 Jan 2004 15:31:43 -0000	1.6
+++ b/errors.xml	16 Mar 2004 03:03:26 -0000	1.7
@@ -79,8 +79,94 @@
 </question>
 
 <answer>
-<para>Nudge the mailing list if a new answer is not provided by
-2003/01/31.</para>
+<para>This error occurs for one of two reasons:</para>
+
+<orderedlist spacing="compact">
+<listitem>
+<para>You do not have the &package-fnts; package installed.  This is
+rarely the problem; but in the event that it is the problem, just
+rerun &cygwin;'s <command>setup.exe</command>, select the
+&package-fnts; package and install it.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>The mount point for
+<filename>&path-install-root;/lib/X11/fonts</filename> was invalid at
+the time that &cygwin;'s <command>setup.exe</command> installed the
+&package-fnts; package.  You can confirm that this is the problem by
+running <command>mount</command> from a &cygwin; shell and checking
+the disk path returned for the
+<filename>&path-install-root;/lib/X11/fonts</filename> mount point.
+You have this problem if the mount point is not pointing to a valid
+folder on your system, or if there are not about 400 files in the
+<filename>misc/</filename> subdirectory of that folder on your
+system.</para>
+
+<note><para>You cannot reliably fix this problem by deleting your
+&cygwin; installation and reinstalling it.  The mount points that
+&cygwin; was using will be left in your system settings and the
+invalid mount point for
+<filename>&path-install-root;/lib/X11/fonts</filename> will be used
+again when you perform the reinstallation.  You SHOULD follow the
+instructions below to fix the problem.</para></note>
+
+<para>To fix the problem, perform the following steps:</para>
+
+<orderedlist spacing="compact">
+<listitem>
+<para>Open a &cygwin; shell and run <command>umount
+&path-install-root;/lib/X11/fonts</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Close the &cygwin; shell.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Run &cygwin;'s <command>setup.exe</command>.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>For each of the following packages, if they are marked Keep,
+then select Reinstall, otherwise leave them as they are:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+<listitem>
+<para>&package-f100;</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>&package-fcyr;</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>&package-fenc;</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>&package-fnts;</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>&package-fscl;</para>
+</listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Allow &cygwin;'s <command>setup.exe</command> to download and
+reinstall the fonts packages.  The key to fixing this problem is that
+the files were previously untarred into an invalid location; removing
+the mount point for the fonts directory should result in the files
+being untarred to a valid location.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+</listitem>
+</orderedlist>
+
 </answer>
 </qandaentry>
 
@@ -93,7 +179,17 @@
 </question>
 
 <answer>
-<para>See <xref linkend="q-error-font-eof"></xref>.</para>
+<para>These warnings are generally harmless since they indicate that
+default search paths for fonts do not actually contain fonts; this is
+only a problem if the <filename>misc</filename> path does not contain
+fonts and/or all of the paths do not contain fonts.  For example, this
+message is generally useless if it only notifies you that
+<filename>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi</filename> (optional 100 dpi
+fonts) is being removed.</para>
+
+<para>If you are getting these message and the X Server is also
+failing to start, then see <xref linkend="q-error-font-eof"></xref>
+for information on how to fix your fonts.</para>
 </answer>
 </qandaentry>
 
@@ -236,25 +332,6 @@
 </answer>
 </qandaentry>
 
-
-<qandaentry>
-<question id="q-error-negative-sized-edge">
-<para>Fatal server error: negative sized edge?</para>
-</question>
-
-<answer>
-<para>A compilation bug, due to the -ansi build flag, in the Type1
-font library caused this bug to be present in all &project;
-<filename>&file-server-exe;</filename> builds between 2001-05-06 and
-2001-08-03.  The -ansi build flag was removed on 2001-08-03 and
-subsequent builds do not contain the bug.  All Server Test Series
-releases from Test23 to Test41 contain the bug.  Test42 was the first
-recent Server Test Series release that did not contain the bug.
-Remedy the bug by either installing the most recent Server Test Series
-release or by updating your entire &project; installation.</para>
-</answer>
-</qandaentry>
-
 <qandaentry>
 <question id="q-error-env-space">
 <para>Out of environment space</para>