xterm hangs - help needed

[Mike Coughlan]

Okay. I ran an X11 terminal instead of a regular command prompt from the Mac Finer, and that spawned xboard and xterm just fine. Now I just need to figure out how to hook that into gnuchess. 

If anyone knows how I might be setting my DISPLAY etc, it's probably a good thing for me to know in the long run. 

Still snow leapord and mac ports. 

Best,

Mike Coughlan

--- On Sun, 11/28/10, Mike Coughlan <mpcmpc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Coughlan <mpcmpc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: xterm hangs - help needed
> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 5:30 PM
> Hi Keith, 
> 
> Thanks for the help. The only environment var I see is PATH
> in ~/.profile:
> export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
> 
> Here's the repeated error message from the system logs. 
> -------------------
> bootstrap_check_in(). Mach service:
> com.google.Keystone.Daemon
> Nov 28 17:18:33 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon[44980]): Exited with exit code:
> 1
> Nov 28 17:18:33 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon): Throttling respawn: Will start
> in 10 seconds
> -------------------
> 
> I tried `sudo exterm` just to prove it was related. I got
> this instead. 
> -------------------
> Nov 28 17:20:44 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon[44996]): Exited with exit code:
> 1
> Nov 28 17:20:44 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon): Throttling respawn: Will start
> in 10 seconds
> Nov 28 17:20:50 odin sudo[44997]: mpcmpc : TTY=ttys000 ;
> PWD=/Users/mpcmpc ; USER=root ;
> COMMAND=/opt/local/bin/xterm
> Nov 28 17:20:54 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon[44998]): bootstrap_register()
> erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach
> service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon
> Nov 28 17:20:54 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon[44998]): Exited with exit code:
> 1
> Nov 28 17:20:54 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon): Throttling respawn: Will start
> in 10 seconds
> Nov 28 17:21:04 odin com.apple.launchd[1]
> (com.google.keystone.daemon[44999]): bootstrap_register()
> erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach
> service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon
> -------------------
> 
> I can't find .xinitrc and .xinitrc.d. Is it possible that
> I'm missing a package? I installed the port 'xterm'. I
> assumed it would grab everything it needed. I saw no
> /etc/X11 dir.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mike C
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 11/28/10, Keith J. Schultz <keithjschultz at web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Keith J. Schultz <keithjschultz at web.de>
> > Subject: Re: xterm hangs - help needed
> > To: "Mike Coughlan" <mpcmpc at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 1:40 PM
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> >     Please check if you have a ~/.profile or
> > ~/.bashrc or .initrc.
> >     If you do make sure you DO NOT SET
> > DISPLAY.
> >     I had one set and xterm did not show
> > when I started X11.
> >     I removed it and everything went fine
> > from there.
> >     
> >     To trouble shoot start the console
> > monitor application in utilities and look
> >     at the system log. 
> > 
> >     Do you have any .xinitrc.d scripts, what
> > is in them what is in your.xinitrc?
> >     
> >     regards
> >         Keith
> > 
> > Am 28.11.2010 um 18:22 schrieb Mike Coughlan:
> > 
> > > I can't get an xterm to show on up my screen. I
> think
> > my environment may be messed up, but I'm not sure how
> to
> > troubleshoot. Or maybe ports missed a dependency.
> > > 
> > > Here's my system info.
> > > Mac OS X 10.6.4
> > > echo $DISPLAY
> > > /tmp/launch-Xpga6G/org.x:0
> > > 
> > > When I run xterm, the mac X11 icon shows up in
> my
> > system tray, but no terminal appears. There is no
> reported
> > error. 
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to run Xboard and Gnuchess. I've got
> Darwin
> > ports installed. It grabbed Gnuchess, Xboard, and
> xterm for
> > me. I've confirmed that Gnuchess installed
> successfully
> > because I can run it in ascii mode. When I run
> 'gnuchess
> > xboard' it hangs much like the xterm. I figure if I
> can
> > solve that problem, this will work too.
> > > 
> > > Thanks all.  
> > > 
> > > Mike Coughlan
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> >
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