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: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:50:24 -0400
Most things are now fixed, but IDL has one issue with 10.5.5 and
xquartz 2.3.1:
If I start the IDLDE 7 from the Dock icon, expecting X11 to launch as
needed, the IDLDE loads, then complains of "fatal error initializing
DML" and dies. If I launch X11 another way, then launch IDL either via
the idlde xterm command, or the Dock icon, the IDLDE 7 launches
normally.
Have you ever heard of this, & if so, what was the fix?
Robert A. Black
Research Meteorologist 4301 Rickenbacker Cswy.
NOAA/AOML/HRD Miami, FL 33149-1026
Ph: (305) 361-4314
FAX: (305) 361-4528 (NEW)
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(Any opinions expressed are mine alone, not NOAA policy)
On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Joseph B. Gurman wrote:
I know it's of no help to you, Robert, but it might be worthwhile
for some other list members to know that we are running several
PowerPC and Intel machines with 10.5.5, xquartz 2.3.1, and IDL 7.0
shows no problems.
Joe Gurman
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On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Robert Black wrote:
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
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 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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