Meld X11 Error

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Sep 3, 2010, at 03:06, Matthias Ohmsen wrote:
>> 1) It says it is already loaded... so I think you're fine.  It's loaded.  The context of the original message has been lost on me, so I don't know what to do from there.  Is the problem that it isn't loaded even though it says it is?  What does 'launchctl list org.freedesktop.dbus-session' show?
> 
> launchctl list org.freedesktop.dbus-session
> {
> 	"Label" = "org.freedesktop.dbus-session";
> 	"LimitLoadToSessionType" = "Background";
> 	"OnDemand" = false;
> 	"LastExitStatus" = 0;
> 	"PID" = 209;
> 	"TimeOut" = 30;
> 	"ProgramArguments" = (
> 		"/opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon";
> 		"--nofork";
> 		"--session";
> 	);
> 	"Sockets" = {
> 		"unix_domain_listener" = (
> 			file-descriptor-object;
> 		);
> 	};
> };

So according to launchctl, it is running with PID 209.


> 
>> 2) The CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource error is odd.  -10 is kCFURLUnknownError which doesn't give much help.  Is it maybe a permissions issue?  What about:
>> 
>> ls -l /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.502/overrides.plist
>> cat /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.502/overrides.plist
> 
> ls -l /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.502/overrides.plist
> -rw-------@ 1 ABC  wheel  0 28 Jul 23:10 /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.502/overrides.plist
> 
> calling
> cat /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.502/overrides.plist
> doesn't give any result

That's weird and inconsistent with the "launchctl list" above.  You should be at least seeing the disabled override.

> 
> The original message is:
>> when starting meld i keep getting the following error:
>> 
>> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-ypOcnp/org.x:0".
>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!


/shrug  I'm out of ideas...