broken X11

[Raymond Brock]

Hello,
I'm grasping at straws here. Somehow I have broken X11 on my macbook pro running 10.6.2. The only thing I can think of that might have done this (excluding all of the other things I might have done and don't remember!) is the installation of MacPorts a while ago. I realize from looking at my bash profile that there were some changes to my $PATH and I wonder whether somehow this caused me difficulties.

The symptoms are that when I launch X11, it starts and then immediately closes. I have:

1. reinstalled from the snow leopard CD
2. deleted org.whatever preferences from the ~/Library/

My $PATH at the moment is:

[pb-d-128-141-35-100...\ bin]$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

If anyone has any ideas - even if MacPorts is not the cause, I'd really appreciate some clues.

thanks,
Ray

The console reports the following during the episode:

3/29/10 06:58:51 PM; Mar 29	com.apple.launchd[1]	(org.dnsupdate.daemon[13974]) posix_spawn("/usr/local/sbin/dnsupdate", ...): No such file or directory
3/29/10 06:58:51 PM; Mar 29	com.apple.launchd[1]	(org.dnsupdate.daemon[13974]) Exited with exit code: 1
3/29/10 06:58:51 PM; Mar 29	com.apple.launchd[1]	(org.dnsupdate.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	X11.app: main(): argc=2
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[1] = -psn_0_21296206
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	X11.app: Could not connect to server (DISPLAY=":0.0", unsetting).  Starting X server.
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	X11.app: Launching /usr/X11/bin/startx:
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[0] = /bin/sh
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[1] = -c
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[2] = /usr/X11/bin/startx
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	org.x.privileged_startx[13990]	font_cache: Scanning system font directories to generate X11 font caches
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	font_cache: Updating FC cache
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	defaults[14011]	
The domain/default pair of (org.x.X11, dpi) does not exist
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	xauth:  creating new authority file /Users/chipbrockMBP/.serverauth.13982
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure: Operation not permitted
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=6
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[0] = /usr/X11/bin/X
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[1] = :0
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[2] = -nolisten
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[3] = tcp
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[4] = -auth
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]		argv[5] = /Users/chipbrockMBP/.serverauth.13982
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	Xquartz starting:
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple45
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	Build Date: 20090705
3/29/10 06:58:55 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
3/29/10 06:58:56 PM; Mar 29	org.x.privileged_startx[13990]	font_cache: Updating FC cache
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	font_cache: Done
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	xrdb: No such file or directory
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	xrdb: can't open file '@@PREFIX@@/share/@@NAME@@/CXterm.ad'
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	_FontTransOpen: Unable to Parse address @@PREFIX@@/share/@@NAME@@/fonts
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	xset:  bad font path element (#957), possible causes are:
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	    Directory missing fonts.dir
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	    Incorrect font server address or syntax
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	waiting for X server to shut down 
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
3/29/10 06:58:57 PM; Mar 29	[0x0-0x144f44e].org.x.X11[13975]	Quitting Xquartz...
3/29/10 06:58:58 PM; Mar 29	org.x.privileged_startx[13990]	font_cache: Done

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