On Mar 4, 2008, at 06:44, Jesse Fleming wrote:
> FYI:
> I thought I'd let you know that since applying this patch several
> weeks ago,
> X has not crashed once which is great! Thanks for the update. I also
> reduced my rdesktop window size from 2000 x 1300 to 1920 x 1280.
> One or
> both may be the solution, but for the past few weeks, things have been
> great.
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jesse Fleming <
email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jeremy. I will put this in place and try it out. I
>> submitted my
>> crash reports to Apple. I am also attaching them here for your
>> review. If
>> it happens with the patch, I'll send those as well.
>> Thanks,
>> Jesse
>>
>>
>> On Feb 19, 2008 2:30 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <
email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it might have something to do with launchd thinking X is
>>> still
>>> running ... not sure why that is. I have a possible workaround for
>>> you (which incidentally I committed to git last night, so primo
>>> timing).
>>>
>>> Try downloading this:
>>>
http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/X11.bz2
>>>
>>> Decompress it and place it here (overwriting the existing binary):
>>> /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/
>>>
>>> This binary *should* have a workaround for this issue in place. The
>>> next time this happens, you should probably get X11 to start via
>>> X11.app, but without launchd support. You can verify this by typing
>>> 'echo $DISPLAY' from within an xterm within X11.app.
>>>
>>> When this happens (either X11 not starting or starting correctly
>>> with
>>> this no-launchd workaround), please provide us with both the crash
>>> log
>>> and the Console.app log for the death of the old X11 and the start
>>> of
>>> the new X11.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>> On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:07, Jesse Fleming wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> As a continuation of my historical posts to this list, I am
>>>> noticing
>>>> a new
>>>> issue with 2.1.4. When the rootless stuff crashes, I now have to
>>>> restart my
>>>> Mac because when I start X again, I have no titlebar and thus
>>>> cannot move
>>>> the X application window. Restarting X does not work. Logging off
>>>> and on
>>>> does not work. Can someone maybe tell me what is being restarted
>>>> or
>>>> reset
>>>> which is being fixed by the restart? If I knew what it was, I
>>>> could
>>>> manually restart it maybe. This whole having to reboot thing has
>>>> not
>>>> happened before. Needless to say, my god is it disrupting. What
>>>> is
>>>> the
>>>> general estimate as to when the rootless stuff in
X.org is going
>>>> to be
>>>> stable and these problems are a thing of the past?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jesse
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