Re: turn of the son of x11 won't start up; keeps trying
Re: turn of the son of x11 won't start up; keeps trying
- Subject: Re: turn of the son of x11 won't start up; keeps trying
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:01:24 -0800
On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Fred Dushin wrote:
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> My machine suddenly started exhibiting this behavior, after X11 had been work well previous. I am sure I did something to change things, but I don't really know what it could be (I have been building a lot of Linux and FreeBSD VMs, so my memory is mush).
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> I upgraded to 2.7.0, but that was after I had started seeing this issue. For all I know, I was running 2.7.0 before I installed the pkg, as well.
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> Fresh reboot of the system, I try to start an xterm from Terminal.app. In /var/log/system.log, I get:
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> Jan 31 22:19:09 kirk org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[521]: /opt/X11/bin/startx: line 78: defaults: command not found
What is your $PATH? Are you somehow unsetting it? That command should be in /usr/bin:
~ $ which defaults
/usr/bin/defaults
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