X11 problem after upgrading 10.4 to 10.5
X11 problem after upgrading 10.4 to 10.5
- Subject: X11 problem after upgrading 10.4 to 10.5
- From: Don MacQueen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:25:10 -0800
I have upgraded an Intel G5 from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5, and somewhere in
the process I seem to have broken X windows. Any suggestions would be
much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The symptom is that if I give the command
xterm &
in a Terminal window, a new window pops up. It's labeled "xterm" at
the top, and it looks like an xterm window as drawn by XQuartz. But
it doesn't accept input. All keystrokes go to the Terminal window.
DISPLAY in the Terminal window is set to
/tmp/launch-UdAHjl/:0
I have set aside all my shell init files (no .bashrc, .profile, or
other shell init file)
I'm willing to install XQuartz 2.3.1 from sourceforge, but I'd like
to know if it will write over any existing X11 related files or
directories, or add any files to any of them, etc..
If I knew for sure what to remove, I'd blow away everything related
to X11, and reinstall from the Leopard DVD -- if I knew for sure what
all packages to reinstall. But I don't, not for sure.
Here's a little history, which may indicate what I might have done wrong.
First, to go from 10.4 to 10.5 I had to run an upgrade install, due
to certain requirements imposed by the institution for which I work.
After upgrading, in /usr I see directories named:
X11
X11R6 (a link to X11)
X11R6 1 (that's correct, "X11R6 1" with a space character in the name)
All three of these were present after the upgrade, which I ran last
week on 11/5.
I don't know why there would be two X11R6 directories, and it worries
me. Perhaps one of them is a preserved copy of the same directory
from 10.4, but if so, which one? But, the dates on their
subdirectories don't make sense for that, because both have
subdirectories dated before 11/5. Their contents are different, also.
X11 contains: X11.app, bin, lib, include, man, share, var
"X11R6 1" contains: lib, man, include
Anyway, foolishly hoping to clean things up, today, 11/10, I
installed "X11" in the optional installs on the Leopard DVD, and also
everything in "XcodeTools.mpkg".
Having done that, the date on "X11R6 1" directory is 11/5 and the
date on "X11" and "X11R6" is 11/10.
I'm happy to supply more details if it helps...
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
925-423-1062
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