Re: both X11 and XQuartz encounter similar error
Re: both X11 and XQuartz encounter similar error
- Subject: Re: both X11 and XQuartz encounter similar error
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:36:13 -0700
On Sep 13, 2010, at 15:44, Michael Lachman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I gave Jeremy's last suggestion a try - mv "pathname" "pathname.bak" for various files, and that didn't produce any discernible change. After discovering during a another task in Terminal that links to all man files were borked, I threw up my hands and reinstalled 10.6. Everything is back to working normally now, a relief for me but perhaps frustrating from a bug-catching perspective.
>
> Just a couple answers post-mortem:
>
> @Jeremy - No, launching X11.app was done after a fresh login rather than after launching Inkscape. This was a difference between XQuartz and X11 - XQuartz only produced the loop after an app was launched, X11.app would start in immediately.
This somewhat makes sense in that they would be started differently because XQuartz was using the $DISPLAY socket and thus startx was launched by launchd (meaning it inherited launchd's environment) rather than from the .app (meaning it inherited the login shell environment beause of our X11.sh-foo).
So the problem seems to reduce to the environment setup by launchd which makes me suspicious of environment.plist ... but since we can't investigate that now, I'm not sure there's much I can do. I'm sorry you had to resort to a reinstall.
> @David - I didn't get the chance to run the last couple of checks on urandom you suggested. Output of dd if=/dev/urandom bs=16 count=1 2> /dev/null | hexdump -e \"x\" is now a hex string, as it should be.
If it happens again (which it might if you install the same 3rd party software as you did before), you should definitely check:
which dd
which hexdump
because it's possible they were hijacked.
--Jeremy
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