X11 no longer working

Christopher Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sat May 9 11:41:32 UTC 2020


looks like your xorg-server installation is not working. Try removing it, reinstall, then log out and back in again.

> On 9 May 2020, at 12:39 pm, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 09.05.2020 um 13:22 schrieb Richard Tobin <richard at inf.ed.ac.uk <mailto:richard at inf.ed.ac.uk>>:
>> 
>> 
>>>>> Does running xclock or other X clients locally work?
>> 
>>> No. xclock also hangs locally.
>> 
>> So it's not an ssh problem.
>> 
>>>> Also, do ssh -v -Y and see what it says about X11 forwarding.
>> 
>>> Have gone through the ssh connection already in previous posts.
>> 
>> So you did, I missed that.
>> 
>>> What make me wonder is, when I'm looking at the process command 
>>> line of the Xquartz process that there is a -nolisten tcp (?!)
>>> 
>>> 6306 s003  S<     0:00.00 /opt/X11/bin/Xquartz :0 -nolisten tcp -iglx
>>> -auth /var/root/.serverauth.6258
>> 
>> That's ok, you're not trying to connect to X by TCP, but through
>> the unix socket :0.  (Just to be sure, try "xclock -display :0")
> 
> kuku at Christophs-MBP ~ % xclock -display :0
> Error: Can't open display: :0
> kuku at Christophs-MBP ~ % xclock -display \:0
> Error: Can't open display: :0
> kuku at Christophs-MBP ~ % echo $DISPLAY
> /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.vabAbiJezH/org.macports:0
> kuku at Christophs-MBP ~ % 
> 
>> 
>> Is there a quartz-wm process running?
>> 
> 
> Not directy. WHat I see is:
> 
>  % ps ax | grep -i quartz
>   419   ??  Ss     0:00.09 /System/Library/Frameworks/Quartz.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/QuickLookUI.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/QuickLookUIService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/QuickLookUIService
> 13030 s008  R+     0:00.00 grep -i quartz
> 
> 
>> -- Richard
>> 
>> -- 
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