Re: How to "reinstall"?
Re: How to "reinstall"?
- Subject: Re: How to "reinstall"?
- From: Nathan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:20:24 -0700
Terminal.app is still the foreground application (menus confirm it).
I can't focus X11 by any means that I've tried (cmd-tab, click on
dock, click on xdmcp login window)
~ Nathan
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
> Is X11.app actually the foreground OSX application or is it still
> Terminal.app?
>
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:09, Nathan wrote:
>
>> I had installed X11-2.3.2_rc1.dmg, and then I upgraded my hard drive.
>> In the process, I did the following steps:
>>
>> 1) Made a time machine backup
>> 2) installed the new hard drive / installed leopard 10.5.4 (the
>> version on my discs)
>> 3) restored from time machine
>> 4) updated to leopard 10.5.5, installed Xcode.
>> 5) X11 was broken, so I installed X11-2.3.2_rc2.dmg (the latest on that
>> day)
>> 6) X11 is still broken, so I tried installing X11-2.3.2_rc3.dmg today.
>> No effect, still broken.
>>
>> I'd like to "fix" X11. What should I do?
>>
>> "broken" in my case means when I run my saved alias of
>> "/usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz -query 10.1.2.59 -once" from Terminal.app I
>> get this behaviour:
>>
>> a) The custom X11 logo bounces.
>> b) the login window appears
>> c) I can't focus the X11 or the login window by any means I've tried.
>> d) I have to force-quite X11, which then relaunches itself without
>> starting up the XDMCP connection or xterm, but other than that it
>> seems normal (so I just quit it normally)
>> e) I get the following output on the terminal:
>>
>> Xquartz: X11.app = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
>> Xquartz: Starting X server:
>> /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
>> X11.app: main(): argc=2
>> argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
>> argv[1] = --listenonly
>> Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
>> X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=4
>> argv[0] = /usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz
>> argv[1] = -query
>> argv[2] = 10.1.2.59
>> argv[3] = -once
>> InitConnectionLimits: MaxClients = 255
>> Xquartz starting:
>> X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple27
>> Build Date: 20081206
>> _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be
>> created.
>> Sync Extension 3.0
>> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
>> (dix) initialising device 0
>> (dix) initialising device 1
>> (dix) initialising device 2
>> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
>> (dix) initialising device 3
>> (dix) initialising device 4
>> (dix) initialising device 5
>> (dix) initialising device 6
>> (dix) enabling device 0
>> (dix) enabling device 1
>> (dix) enabling device 2
>> (dix) enabling device 3
>> (dix) enabling device 4
>> (dix) enabling device 5
>> (dix) enabling device 6
>> AllocNewConnection: client index = 1, socket fd = 11
>> AllocNewConnection: client index = 2, socket fd = 12
>> AllocNewConnection: client index = 2, socket fd = 12
>> [at this point I Ctrl-C and then force-quit X11]
>>
>> ~ Nathan
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