necessary info

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Andrea D'Amore wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:43 PM, John B Brown <jbb at vcn.com> wrote:
>>        Thank you, Andrea. Finally some logic, not personality or  
>> abuse. It
>> would be nice to determine what is really happening, not some U-SWAG.
>
> I can't fully understand what you write.
>
> Did you grep the output of set as you were suggested? Did you updated
> dyld cache?
>
> To make it clear at the moment you have deleted your previous macports
> install directory, right?
>
>
> The XQuartz link I provided was missing a dot, it is actually
> <http://xquartz.macosforge.org>.
>
> You say it's an Apple builtin error but you have to consider that on
> fresh installed systems X11.app works like a charm, you may possibly
> have polluted your env installing some program.


This is what I have for files on osx 10.5.8, and startx works from  
command line resulting in /Applications/Utilities/X11.app in the Dock.

Regards,
Brad

bash-3.2# locate libTIFF.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/ 
ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/ 
Versions/A/Resources/libTIFF.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/ 
ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/ 
Versions/A/Resources/libTIFF.dylib
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ 
Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libTIFF.dylib
bash-3.2# locate libtiff.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libtiff.dylib
/opt/local/var/macports/software/tiff/3.9.2_2+macosx/opt/local/lib/ 
libtiff.dylib
/opt/local/var/macports/software/tiff/3.9.2_3+macosx/opt/local/lib/ 
libtiff.dylib
bash-3.2# port installed xorg xfree86
None of the specified ports are installed.
bash-3.2# which startx
/usr/X11/bin/startx
bash-3.2# startx
font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
font_cache: Updating FC cache
xauth:  creating new authority file /Users/brad/.serverauth.25905

Xquartz: X11.app = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/ 
MacOS/X11 --listenonly
X11.app: main(): argc=2
	argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
	argv[1] = --listenonly
Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=6
	argv[0] = /usr/X11/bin/X
	argv[1] = :0
	argv[2] = -nolisten
	argv[3] = tcp
	argv[4] = -auth
	argv[5] = /Users/brad/.serverauth.25905
2010-04-29 09:35:35.939 X11.bin[26059:717] Could not connect the  
action apps_table_cancel: to target of class X11Controller
InitConnectionLimits: MaxClients = 255
Xquartz starting:
X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple33
Build Date: 20090327
Sync Extension 3.0
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
(dix) initialising device 0
(dix) initialising device 1
(dix) initialising device 2
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
(dix) initialising device 3
(dix) initialising device 4
(dix) initialising device 5
(dix) initialising device 6
(dix) enabling device 0
(dix) enabling device 1
(dix) enabling device 2
(dix) enabling device 3
(dix) enabling device 4
(dix) enabling device 5
(dix) enabling device 6
font_cache: Done
AllocNewConnection: client index = 1, socket fd = 6
AllocNewConnection: client index = 2, socket fd = 7
AllocNewConnection: client index = 2, socket fd = 7
AllocNewConnection: client index = 3, socket fd = 9
Quitting Xquartz...
Xquartz: start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died
xinit:  connection to X server lost.
xinit:  Operation not permitted (errno 1):  Can't kill X server