broken X11

[Richard DeLaurell]

Are you issuing "startx" from your CLI, or are you using the gui?

I think if you "startx" in the terminal it tends to collide with the mac
windowing env.

Try using spotlight to find "x11" and double-click the application icon in
any list returned; that would be a definitive test of whether you have
borked it or not.

Sorry if this is not helpful.

Good luck--

Richard

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Raymond Brock <brock at pa.msu.edu> wrote:

> 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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