Re: XQuartz on Yosemite
Re: XQuartz on Yosemite
- Subject: Re: XQuartz on Yosemite
- From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 02:17:40 -0800
First thing I'd suggest in triaging your admin account is moving aside ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, and ~/.xinitrc if you have any of those. Errors in those files are a frequent cause of trouble.
--Jeremy
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 01:56, Nash, Anthony <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> You hit the nail on the head. Upon created a new user account the first thing I did was to execute xclock from the terminal. It appeared. I then ssh -X into the HPC and loaded the required software. It appeared.
>
> Now all I need to do is work out why XQuartz doesn't work on the Admin account. But at least I can still get back to doing work now :)
>
> Thanks
> Anthony
>
> Dr Anthony Nash
> Department of Chemistry
> University College London
> ________________________________________
> From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia [email@hidden]
> Sent: 12 February 2015 06:46
> To: Nash, Anthony
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: XQuartz on Yosemite
>
> Try creating a new user account to see if it's maybe something in your current user's configuration.
>
>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 22:27, Nash, Anthony <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just got up. Went through a complete uninstall of XQuartz, restarted the machine, tested everything to make sure it wasn't there. Nothing in top, nothing in the launcher, xclock gone, and $DISPLAY shows a blank line
>>
>> I then went through a reinstall using the 2.7.7. dmg package. No problem. Restarted the machine as per installation instructions.
>> $Display -->/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.9puGcCVaM8/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
>>
>> in top:
>> 61859 Xquartz 0.0 00:00.00 2 0 23 808K 0B 0B 61859 61854
>>
>> Visible in the Launchpad as X11 (but it does not when I click on it)
>>
>> However, when I type xclock in the command line I see its process:
>> 61828 xclock 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 9 588K 0B 0B 61828 61749
>>
>> But I do not see a xclock GUI (as I have seen on websites). Surely before even trying to communicate with remote applications I need to ensure XQuartz is configured correctly on myside.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Anthony
>>
>> Dr Anthony Nash
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University College London
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Michael P. Soulier [email@hidden]
>> Sent: 11 February 2015 23:07
>> To: Nash, Anthony
>> Cc: email@hidden
>> Subject: Re: XQuartz on Yosemite
>>
>> I’m using ssh -X.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Nash, Anthony <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> What are the exact commands you are using? I'm not overly experienced with XQuartz. I was fortunate enough to be running Mac Snow Leopard for 4 years without a single need to do anything but type "ssh -X ...."
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr Anthony Nash
>>> Department of Chemistry
>>> University College London
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Michael P. Soulier [email@hidden]
>>> Sent: 11 February 2015 21:22
>>> To: Nash, Anthony
>>> Cc: John Francini; email@hidden
>>> Subject: Re: XQuartz on Yosemite
>>>
>>> Personally, I get an xauth not found error, and I must run xauth manually.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Nash, Anthony <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> I've tried both with no success.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Anthony
>>>>
>>>> Dr Anthony Nash
>>>> Department of Chemistry
>>>> University College London
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: John Francini [email@hidden]
>>>> Sent: 11 February 2015 20:47
>>>> To: Nash, Anthony
>>>> Cc: email@hidden
>>>> Subject: Re: XQuartz on Yosemite
>>>>
>>>> After you do the install it’s necessary to log out and log back in (or restart) before trying to run X.
>>>>
>>>> John, who uses X11 apps just fine on my Yosemite system
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 11 Feb 2015, at 15:29, Nash, Anthony <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand there are many guides on XQuartz for Yosemite, of which I have gone through many of them. But unfortunately my problem persists. It all began after purchasing a brand new Mac inc. Yosemite. I do a lot of ssh X11Forwarding work from home, and now going from Snow Leppard all of a sudden I've got a bit of a stop-ship issue. ssh -X was throwing up the warning:
>>>>>
>>>>> /opt/X11/bin/xauth: file /Users/acnash/.Xauthority does not exist
>>>>>
>>>>> So now I can't load remote applications from a HPC. I try loading X from the terminal and I get a dialog window saying to go and install XQuartz. So I do this. After this I check all of the usual directories and I note that there are symbolic links to XQuartz. Wonderful.
>>>>>
>>>>> But then I continue getting the same error when using ssh -X (and -Y).
>>>>>
>>>>> So now I simply try launching Xclock from my local terminal (my mac). Nothing happens. Xclock appears to be running (the command line does not return and top indicates the presence of the xclock process) but I get NO gui. In fact, looking at top I can see the XQuartz process sitting there too.
>>>>>
>>>>> The $DISPLAY is:
>>>>> /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.idm2Xw6J8h/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
>>>>>
>>>>> I would really appreciate some help here. I'm a mathematical chemist not an IT guy, and this is causing some really issues with my work. I know that things should fall into place the moment I can get xclock visualised on my side.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dr Anthony Nash
>>>>> Department of Chemistry
>>>>> University College London
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