Re: 10.5.5 broke X11
Re: 10.5.5 broke X11
- Subject: Re: 10.5.5 broke X11
- From: Robert Black <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:58:58 -0400
I don't think so. My IDL 7 was working fine up through 10.5.4. My IDL
6.4 required a patch from the IDL folks to make it run under Leopard,
which I didn't install until 10.5.4 came out because there was no fink
for it, and I wanted nedit, ddd, gfortran, and f2c, which I use often.
Unfortunately, after the iTunes 8 and Security Updates on Monday,
things were still OK, except that iTunes erased all my music on my
4'th Gen iPod when I turned off syncing. What fool programmed that
idiotic "feature" I don't know, but if I were supervising, I would
have demoted to janitor for doing so.
On Tuesday, Software Update picked up the 10.5.5 update, and my
troubles have not ceased since. I'm in the process of doing a Time
Machine backup of my current system, & going back to 10.5.4, or maybe
to 10.4.11, when X11 worked and was stable. In the meantime, I
restarted several times, zapped the p-ram, deleted preferences,
updated X11 to 3.2.1, etc. In spite of all that, X11 fails to launch.
I have never had such trouble I couldn't fix before, & I've used Macs
since OS 6.5. So far, my vote goes to 10.4.6 (pre-Intel) as the most
stable system for PPC.
Robert A. Black
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On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Tommy Grav wrote:
I have not been following the whole discussion, but I remember
hearing from my system
administrator that the latest version of IDL (which I guess is 7) is
not working properly on
PPC, could this be causing this?
Cheers
Tommy
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
You've got two X11 processes running. I don't know what you did to
get your system into this weird state, but I suspect it has
something to do with IDL. Please do:
Reboot
Install 2.3.1
Open Terminal.app
Execute '/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11'
what happens? You should see some output in Terminal.app and X11
should start.
Goto another tab in Terminal.app and run 'xterm'. The xterm should
show up.
Quit X11.
In Terminal.app now, just run 'xterm'.
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:26, Robert Black wrote:
Here it is. Still no luck. I am trying the 10.5.5 combo installer
next for good measure. Failing that. Leopard will be deleted in
favor of 10.4.11, where everything worked well (I still have my
old system cloned on an external HD).
apollo18:~ rblack$ ps x | grep X11
2571 ?? S 0:00.02 /usr/X11/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp -auth /
Users/rblack/.serverauth.327
2572 ?? S 0:05.01 /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/
MacOS/X11 --listenonly
2577 ?? S 0:00.06 /bin/sh /usr/X11/bin/startx
2609 ?? S 0:00.02 /bin/bash /usr/X11/bin/font_cache
2651 ?? S 0:00.01 xinit /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /
usr/X11/bin/X :1 -nolisten tcp -auth /Users/rblack/.serverauth.2577
2652 ?? S 0:00.01 /usr/X11/bin/X :1 -nolisten tcp -auth /
Users/rblack/.serverauth.2577
2657 ?? R 0:03.34 /usr/X11/bin/fc-cache
apollo18:~ rblack$ ps x -p 327 #
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
yes, but what does 'launchctl list | grep org.x' show now. I'm
guessing 2577... so I'm confused how 2571 got started.
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