Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
- Subject: Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
- From: Douglas Stetner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:22:45 +1000
On 23/12/04 at 11:53 (+0100), Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
wrote:
>Stephen Sebeny wrote: []
>>So, thanks again to everyone who responded, its truly appreciated.
>>And hopefully given the details above someone out there will know for
>>sure how to lock-in the effect of the DISPLAY=:0.0 statement and make
>>its effect permanent. (fingers-crossed!) Thanks!
...
...
>Otherwise, your problem remains mysterious. You more or less
>demonstrated that it can only be a hardware problem, but I cannot
>imagine one that would give this strange behavior.
I have been watching this thread go by, racking my brain trying to remember what
causes this problem. I *have* seen it before, it is NOT hardware, and I don't
think it is X11, I think it is a shell config problem.
I cannot remember if it is a pty thing or some stty setting, but it is
definitely a shell thing. If it was X11 that was futzed, then an 'ls' should
work. If it was X11, the 'set DISPLAY and run a command from the terminal'
would not work.
Basically the shell has gone brain dead due to an error somewhere in the config
files. I would look for non-matched quotes, bad stty settings etc. In fact my
first step in trouble shooting this would be to move aside all personal 'dot'
files from a vanilla user and see if it still occurs.
As I said, I have seen this before, but I will be damned if I can put my finger
on it now....
The prompt setting seems to ring a bell as well....
Hope you find it soon...
--
Douglas Stetner stetner AT stetner DOT org
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We
don't believe this to be a coincidence. --Jeremy S. Anderson
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