Hi,
It seems I've gotten myself into some real trouble, and the problem is I have
no idea how/why. Hence the cross-posting...
I can no longer launch the X11 environment in which I did almost all my work
and that's crucial for displaying remote applications.
The original XQuartz environment has been crashing for me for years now so I've
been running the MacPorts xorg-server-devel port (1.20.10) in a build of my own
that enables some additional features such as xephyr.
Yesterday my session started to become instable (nothing to do with X11) after
about 65 days of uptime so I quit everything, logged off and rebooted. That's
when the problems started, but I think I did something I shouldn't have done
before that.
The X11 application shell launches, but the actual X server doesn't, at least
not in my own account.
After a good while waiting I'm getting this message in the system.log:
Feb 16 21:43:36 Portia.local org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[2110]:
launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure: Operation not permitted
Googling served up someone who got this after setting the PATH in the launchctl
environment (~/.MacOSX/environment.plist) and that removing that and rebooting
help him.
It doesn't for me (I tried both removing the PATH specification and restoring
the plist from before, rebooting both times).
Starting from the commandline gives
```
# /opt/local/bin/startx -- /opt/local/bin/Xquartz
font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
privileged_startx: bootstrap_look_up(org.macports.privileged_startx): Unknown
service name
font_cache: Updating FC cache
font_cache: Done
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
xauth: file /Users/bertin/.serverauth.1969 does not exist
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/bertin/.Xauthority
No protocol specified
waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
No protocol specified
..
```
The "No protocol specified" and ".." lines start about when the X11 application
opens and are repeated indefinitely until I quit that application. The message
about org.macports.privileged_startx is normal: I moved that plist to
LaunchDaemons-disabled long ago for reasons I cannot remember but it was
clearly not crucial.
I also moved the org.*.startx.plist files to LaunchAgents-disabled because I
don't need on-demand starting of the X11 server and prefer to have a "normal"
DISPLAY variable of the ":0" style .
My .xinitrc generates output, and that isn't being generated anymore. Moving
the entire file aside or removing the plist in ~/Library/Preferences don't
solve anything either.
Curiously, when I log in to my fallback admin account the X11 server still
starts as it should: without long delays or any other issue. It's of course not
set up properly but things seem to work normally otherwise.
Any idea how to triage this problem, or any suggestions what I could try to
unblock this?
FWIW, I'm still running 10.9.5 .
Thanks a LOT in advance!
René
