broken X11

[Rainer Müller]

On 2010-03-29 18:59 , Raymond Brock wrote:
> [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

Looks like you are also using fink.

> The console reports the following during the episode:
> [...]
> 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

MacPorts does not install the file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base. It
is not part of the default X11 install.

Find out how this file come onto your system and either fix or remove
it. I have no idea if fink installs anything in /usr/X11?

Rainer