CLI challenged
CLI challenged
- Subject: CLI challenged
- From: Mario Jaramillo <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:33:32 -0500
When I try to run X11.app, it starts up and dies with the following message:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
Quitting XDarwin...
BACKGROUND: I'm a converted PC user. Started on DOS in high school, then moved on to the Microsoft GUIs (from Windows 2.11, all the way to Windows 2000, plus a little bit of XP), and was very knowledgeable about PCs before switching to Apple... Now I have 6 months MacOS experience.
About a week ago, I started using Apple's X11 on my PowerBook G4 (MacOS v.10.3.8 with 1GB RAM and 128MB VRAM). I installed X11User.pkg, X11SDK.pkg, and XCodeTools-1.5 (downloaded from Apple's Developer Connection), then downloaded and installed Fink-0.22.1-1 and Fink Commander-0.5.3.
Everything worked fine until I tried to install Gtk+2 as a base for Ethereal...
(a) as suggested by Gtk's web site (please note that I'm not blaming them, just my own ignorance), I downloaded and attempted to install GNU Make. It sort of worked, though I had to prefix the whole PATH in front of the
gmake command for it to work... (and then I discovered that GNU Make comes included in the XCodeTools-1.5 package, so this extra complication was not needed...)
(b) although I was following, verbatim, the recommended install sequence, the Gtk dependencies refused to recognize each other at the
/.configure step, so I finally used Fink Commander for the whole Gtk+2-dev (and dependencies) installation.
PROBLEM: Yesterday, at some point during the routine described in the Gtk part (I'm not sure exactly when, because I was using Terminal, not Xterm), my X11 sessions began starting up and dying with the following message:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
Quitting XDarwin...
This is how my /tmp/ directory looked (from Terminal):
MJ:~ mariojaramillo$ ls -la /tmp/
total 8
drwxrwxrwt 5 root wheel 170 18 Mar 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 18 Mar 07:58 ..
drwxrwxrwt 2 mariojar wheel 68 18 Mar 10:16 .X11-unix
drwx------ 4 mariojar wheel 136 18 Mar 09:36 501
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 664 17 Mar 23:51 mcx_compositor
ATTEMPTED SOLUTION: I found a post in Apple's Mailing List Archive where someone described a similar problem. The included error message was identical to mine, so I tried the suggested solution:
sudo chown root /tmp/.X11-unix
Now, the "
Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root" line in my console.log error message does not appear anymore, but my X11 sessions start up and die anyway:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
Quitting XDarwin...
Interestingly, when I log in to the same PowerBook G4 as another user (standard user, no admin privileges), the X11 session for that user starts up with no problems, and I get the following lines added to my "Quitting XDarwin..." message on the console.log:
257 on console
Mac OS X Version 10.3.8 (Build 7U16)
2005-03-18 10:50:58 -0500
This is how my /tmp/ directory now looks like:
MJ:~ mariojaramillo$ ls -la /tmp/
total 16
drwxrwxrwt 7 root wheel 238 18 Mar 11:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 18 Mar 07:58 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 barby wheel 11 18 Mar 10:35 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 102 18 Mar 10:44 .X11-unix
drwx------ 4 mariojar wheel 136 18 Mar 11:37 501
drwxr-xr-x 2 barby wheel 68 18 Mar 10:27 503
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 646 18 Mar 10:27 mcx_compositor
Help would be appreciated.
Mario Jaramillo
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