Re: latest update to X11.app for Snow Leopard (10.6.8)?
Re: latest update to X11.app for Snow Leopard (10.6.8)?
- Subject: Re: latest update to X11.app for Snow Leopard (10.6.8)?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:57:06 -0800
On Feb 14, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Miles Fidelman <email@hidden> wrote:
> Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
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>> I'd appreciate it if you could report what your problems were with 2.7.4. It's really easy to actually disable 2.7.4 and go back to 2.3.6 (just a single launchctl command and relog) if you get into trouble, but I'd like to make sure that we figure out what the problem is.
>>
>
> Happy to, but can you give me a little guidance as to what to look for (I'm not that familiar with the innards of X - mostly use Mac for desktop GUI, command line linux on servers; occasionally pop open an X-window to run server-side stuff that wants to open a GUI - but never had that much need to learn the ins and outs of X).
>
> The short form of the last go-around:
> - installed 2.7.4 from the package
> - logged out and in
> - tried opening an xterm from a terminal window - the command hung, and it didn't look like the x server even tried to start up
> - tried ssh -X to a remote server, the session hung before connecting
>
> So, before I try the install again, what kinds of things should I look for to report back (log entries, diagnostic commands)?
1) Try just running XQuartz.app directly. Does that work? If not, what happens?
2) Anything interesting in /var/log/system.log ?
3) Anything interesting in ~/Library/Logs/X11 ?
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