Re: OS update
Re: OS update
- Subject: Re: OS update
- From: Pierre Baguis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:36:40 -0800 (PST)
Silly me. It was the .xinitrc file that I had in my home directory. Renaming it will let X11 and XQuartz run in their default mode.
Some of the old binaries compiled under fink still work. I guess this is pure chance of library compatibility since other binaries complain about libraries versions and don't run.
By the way, overall Snow Leopard runs very well in this old Macbook. Some things run somewhat slower (e.g. launching OmniGraffle: the application launches fast but it takes more time to open the dialog where we choose what to do) while others have seen incredible speed increases (disk images are mounted MUCH faster than previously: I have a disk image of about 300 MB that needed 1-2 minutes to mount under
Leopard and now this happens almost instantaneously).
So, now I have to explore my options about X11 software distributions (fink, macports or something else) and of course re-install everything I need.
Thanks again,
Pierre
From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
To: Pierre Baguis <email@hidden>
Cc: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: OS update
On Dec 27, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Pierre Baguis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I finally tried to update by following the standard route, that is just running the SL installer on top of my existing Leopard installation. I have now a working Snow Leopard system with many (probably all) of the old Leopard applications still working, including the PowerPC ones (I installed Rosetta also).
>
> As expected, I ended up with the default X11 in my Utilities folder. I downloaded and installed XQuartz-2.7.0 and tried to launch XQuartz. It crashes
Attach your crash report. There's nothing I can really do to help you without that.
> but it does not end there. It enters an infinite loop of self-launching and crashing.
> To recover from this situation a logout is necessary.
Yeah. That's expected given that it crashes on launch. launchd will keep respawning it.
> Same with the default
X11.
Really? Provide a crash report please. There's not enough to go on here, since it obviously works for most people, or there would be a plethora of screams on this mailing list if that weren't the case... so there's something unique about your setup. Have you tried a fresh user account to rule out any configuration issue with your account?
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