First off - thanks for all the work on the Leopard X11 package. X11 is
working pretty well for me except for my configure scripts not knowing
how to detect OpenGL anymore (it sounds like lots of other people have
related problems).
I think I have found a problem with the X11 launch process. I won't
have time to verify it before leaving for Christmas, but I did want to
mention it to you now before I forget.
I am using X11.app 2.1.1 (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple5) and OS X 10.5.1. I
have enabled fast user switching.
I had X11 running under my normal user account and then switched to my
admin account. I tried to start X11 as admin by clicking on X11.app in
the dock (I actually want an xterm, contrary to the more vocal
participants on the X11 list). X11 didn't start, and then I remembered
that I shouldn't try to use it under two accounts at the same time.I
noticed that the screen would periodically flash under the admin
account, but didn't think anything of it at the time. I solved my
problem using Terminal and went back to work under my normal account.
This morning I switched back to the admin account and the Finder
became unresponsive. I couldn't restart Finder, so I had to reboot the
Mac. I took a look at /var/log/system.log after the reboot and found
it started this way:
Dec 20 00:00:00 elko newsyslog[4428]: logfile turned over
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[419]: AUDIT: Thu Dec 20 00:00:01 2007:
420 X11: c
lient 8 rejected from local host (uid 501)
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[419]: Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
ID: -1
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[419]: AUDIT: Thu Dec 20 00:00:01 2007:
420 X11: c
lient 8 rejected from local host (uid 501)
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[419]: Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
ID: -1
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: Xlib: connection to ":0.0"
refused by serv
er
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
key
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: TransformProcessType: Success
Dec 20 00:00:11: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: Launchd command line argument
noticed.
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: Fatal server error:
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: Server is already active for
display 0
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: If this server is no longer
running, rem
ove /tmp/.X0-lock
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: and start again.
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: AbortDDX
Dec 20 00:00:01 elko org.x.X11[4429]: Quitting XQuartz...
Dec 20 00:00:02 elko org.x.X11[419]: AUDIT: Thu Dec 20 00:00:02 2007:
420 X11: c
lient 8 rejected from local host (uid 501)
This pattern persisted for thousands of lines.
The screen flashing I noticed probably happened once per attempt to
start the X11 server.
Is there a way to tell the X11 server to give up when it can't launch
instead of going into an infinite loop?
Thanks again,
Steve
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