Re: X11 problem after upgrading 10.4 to 10.5
Re: X11 problem after upgrading 10.4 to 10.5
- Subject: Re: X11 problem after upgrading 10.4 to 10.5
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:05:33 -0800
On Nov 10, 2008, at 12:25, Don MacQueen wrote:
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.
This may seem lika silly question, but did you click on the xterm
window to focus input on it?
DISPLAY in the Terminal window is set to
/tmp/launch-UdAHjl/:0
That looks right.
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..
You mean macosforge.org.
Yes, it will overwrite your existing X11 files and difectories. We
recommend doing so.
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.
Don't do that. The version of X11 shipped with the Leopard DVD was
way old. If you want to "blow away" everything, I'd recommend
installing X11-2.3.1 from xquartz.macosforge.org instead of
X11User.pkg from the DVD.
sudo rm -rf /Applications/Utilities/X11.app /usr/X11* /System/Library/
Launch*/org.x.*
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)
That's right. That's the Leopard X11
X11R6 1 (that's correct, "X11R6 1" with a space character in the
name)
That's a "backup" of the X11R6 directory that you had in Tiger.
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".
Then you just broke your X11 even further 'cause Leopard 10.5's
shipped X11 had many issues. If you want to go that route instead of
the macosforge.org release, you need to run the 10.5.5 Combo Update
after reinstalling from the DVD.
Having done that, the date on "X11R6 1" directory is 11/5 and the
date on "X11" and "X11R6" is 11/10.
Just trash that X11R6\ 1 directory.
--Jeremy
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