Re: x11 won't start up; keeps trying
Re: x11 won't start up; keeps trying
- Subject: Re: x11 won't start up; keeps trying
- From: Tom Grace <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:02:22 +0200
On 14.08.2010, at 19.46, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 10:46, Tom Grace wrote:
>
>> On 14.08.2010, at 19.21, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> 14.08.10 18:14:01 org.x.startx[84224] fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>>
>>> This is something you normally shouldn't encounter. How many processes are you running (/bin/ps)? Did you or your sys admin set a low ulimit (what is the output of 'ulimit -a')?
>>
>>
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> max user processes (-u) 266
>
> That's not the default. It should be 512.
How can I change this?
>
>> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>>
>> I can't run ps while I have xterm going, but Activity Monitor fills up with X11 processes. 5-7s later they are gone, and then they come back. Ctrl-C on xterm doesn't stop these. In fact, it becomes a problem opening new apps (error -10810). I don't know how to kill these; I have to log out or restart.
>
> Yeah. Just reboot. I think something may have gone wrong with your running startx. I'll look into that, but for now, just try rebooting your system and running 'xterm' from Terminal.app or double clicking X11.app. If that doesn't work, reboot again to get a clean slate and run this from Terminal.app:
>
> DISPLAY="" /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
OK, I'll give that a try for the time being. Would you suggest installing the new update to XQuartz? Would this likely overwrite strange settings like the one above?
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