I have been problem free for over a year, thank you very much, fink providers.
But, I recently destroyed my less than two-year-old MBP with a glass of
kombucha tea (the hard drive survived intact), and was forced to trade the
first-born for a new computer. Yosemite (10.10.4) was pre-installed on the new
MBP, and during the setup I transferred the hard drive contents from trashed
MBP to new one (so not a clean install). After installation, I moved old /sw to
the side, and installed fink 0.38.6 into new /sw. Also installed full Xcode 6.4
and the CLT. I let fink install several of my favorite unix programs (xfig, gv,
xgraph, grace, and the nedit editor). No problems whatsoever. I then installed
the latest Quartz 2.7.7 (I had been running 2.7.5 on the now-defunct MBP). Then
the problems began. I requested xterm from Terminal.app and got a window pinned
to the upper left corner of desktop. It could not be moved, and after placing
the cursor in that window, it turned into an X outside the window until I
entered the Terminal again and clicked on it. Called for gv from the Terminal,
and it's window also pinned over the xterm. Same for nedit window. None could
be moved, none had a menu bar at the top. Then these windows and X11 crashed,
each with an error of the form
Error from nedit window: XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily
unavailable) on X server
"/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.hlZVYQFTa4/org.macosforge.xquartz:0"
after 9511 requests (5857 known
processed) with 0 events remaining.
This all began over a week ago, and I am exhausted after trying several
reinstalls of fink and different versions of XQuartz. The only solution I have
found so far is to use XQuartz 2.7.5, which will start up xterm windows and X
application windows. BUT, I cannot start any X windows from Terminal!! If I
call for an xterm from Terminal I get
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.8XjZmITi2w/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
Strangely enough, this same type of error occurred for me a little over a year
ago on Mountain Lion (10.8.5) when I tried to go to XQuartz 2.7.7, and the only
resolution was to go back to Quartz 2.7.5 (Alexander, we had a long exchange
about this, but of course I wouldn't expect you to remember such a thing after
all the things you have had to deal with since). However, at that time, and
afterwards up to this point, the Terminal also worked with X just fine.
Oh, I nearly forgot a very important point...on two occasions at least in the
last week, everything was working together perfectly with 2.7.7, but then each
time a REBOOT of the machine brought it back to the same sorry state with no
working X windows!
Thanks for any help you can give me with this very frustrating situation.
-Mike
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