Re: 10.5.5 broke X11
Re: 10.5.5 broke X11
- Subject: Re: 10.5.5 broke X11
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:06:59 -0700
Robert, if you have been following the x11-users mailing list, you're
well aware of how much testing is being done on these releases. Indeed
7 release candidates were made to 2.3.1 over the past two months, and
not a single person hit the problem you are mentioning. The version of
X11 included in 10.5.5 has been available to the public for use and
testing since around April. It is the same as 2.2.3 which is
essentially the same as 2.2.1 with security updates. If you feel that
the testing done is insufficient, then I urge you to test the release
candidates announced on this list and contribute to that testing yourself.
Furthermore, it looks to me like the problem is with a configuration on
your system. The "Unable to obtain display variable from
/tmp/.X11-unix" is certainly not an error message that we generate.
Furthermore, the DISPLAY variable should already be set for you... which
makes me think that your environment, or a 3rd party app is clobbering
that environment variable.
What happens if you just launch X11 by itself (rather than having IDL
start it)?
What happens if you run 'echo $DISPLAY' from Terminal.app?
What happens if you run 'xterm' from Terminal.app?
--Jeremy
Robert Black wrote:
Dear Mr. Huddleston:
I am on a 1.8 GHz G5 with 2 Gb RAM using 10.5.5. I installed the
XQuartz 3.2.1 version and re-started for good measure.
This occurred when I started IDL-7:
Unable to obtain display variable from /tmp/.X11-unix
iTerm failed to read the .profile
This appeared in the console log only after trying to launch the IDLDE:
9/16/08 2:30:54 PM login[216] USER_PROCESS: 216 ttys000
9/16/08 2:36:21 PM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.x.X11[288] X11.app: main(): argc=2
9/16/08 2:36:21 PM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.x.X11[288] argv[0] =
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
9/16/08 2:36:21 PM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.x.X11[288] argv[1] = -psn_0_188462
9/16/08 2:36:21 PM [0x0-0x2e02e].org.x.X11[288] Waiting for startup
parameters via Mach IPC.
9/16/08 2:38:28 PM com.apple.launchd[81]
([0x0-0x2c02c].IDLWorkbench[285]) Stray process with PGID equal to
this dead job: PID 407 PPID 406 xhost
9/16/08 2:38:28 PM com.apple.launchd[81]
([0x0-0x2c02c].IDLWorkbench[285]) Stray process with PGID equal to
this dead job: PID 406 PPID 1 bash
I really wish you guys would test these "updates" before releasing
them to the public.
Robert A. Black
Research Meteorologist 4301 Rickenbacker Cswy.
NOAA/AOML/HRD Miami, FL 33149-1026
Ph: (305) 361-4314
FAX: (305) 361-4528 (NEW)
E-Mail: email@hidden
(Any opinions expressed are mine alone, not NOAA policy)
On Sep 16, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Sep 16, 2008, at 09:51, Robert Black wrote:
The latest Leopard release, 10.5.5, broke my X11 on my G5 PPC. It no
longer launches. Consequently, I can no longer use IDL nor any other
X11 based software. If anyone knows a fix for this, I'd like to hear
from them.
1) Can you please report what shows up in your system.log (Console.app)
2) Grab version 2.3.1 from http://xquartz.macosforge.org and install
that... seeing as how you use IDL, you'll probably want that anyways
since it has an 8bit server option as well.
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