This thing is cursed. I used fink to remove, rebuild, and reinstall xinitrc
after installing 2.7.7. The problem remained...X11 started up with an xterm
window pinned to upper left corner, I could start applications whose windows
pinned to the same position, but they couldn't be moved, and eventually X11
crashes.
The odd thing is that after futzing with things for awhile, starting and
stopping X11, various windows, etc., all of a sudden it started working
properly (sort of, the nedit and gv windows looked a little odd, but I could
work as usual). After making some changes to some files, I then accidentally
crashed things with a "launchctl unload" command (I hit !la thinking I was
going to latex a file, but my previous command in that Terminal was this
launchctl unload command which wiped out an important .plist that I didn't have
the wherewithal to record somewhere). I tried to "launchctl load" the same
.plist with no noticeable effect, after that I was back to the same old
problem, and haven't been able to recover to a usable X11 since. For what it's
worth, the following processes run when I try to start X11 by calling an xterm
from Terminal:
Mike 19602 0.0 0.0 2464532 2644 ?? S 9:49AM 0:00.01
/opt/X11/bin/Xquartz :0 -nolisten tcp
Mike 19601 0.0 0.0 2452636 688 ?? S 9:49AM 0:00.00
/opt/X11/bin/xinit /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /opt/X11/bin/Xquartz :0
-nolisten tcp
Mike 19558 0.0 0.0 2436440 976 ?? S 9:49AM 0:00.01
/bin/sh /opt/X11/bin/startx -- /opt/X11/bin/Xquartz
Mike 19557 0.0 0.0 2469224 680 ?? S 9:49AM 0:00.01
/opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/launchd_startx /opt/X11/bin/startx --
/opt/X11/bin/XquartzMike 19635 0.0 0.0 2432832 684 s002 Ss+
9:49AM 0:00.01 /opt/X11/bin/luit
Mike 19603 0.0 0.4 2599468 36144 ?? S 9:49AM 0:00.38
/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin --listenonly
Feeling lost, I went back and listed packages installed by fink, and noticed
that I needed to update a library named libidn-shlibs 1.31-1. When I tried to
do this, I got the following errors:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make Makefile cd .. &&
/bin/sh /sw/src/fink.build/libidn-1.31-1/libidn-1.31/build-aux/missing
automake-1.14 --gnu doc/Makefile
/sw/src/fink.build/libidn-1.31-1/libidn-1.31/build-aux/missing: line 81:
automake-1.14: command not foundWARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your
system.
make[1]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 127make: *** [Makefile.gdoc] Error 2###
execution of /tmp/fink.FKhc7 failed, exit code 2
### execution of /tmp/fink.zL2M6 failed, exit code 2
Package manager version: 0.38.6Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sat Jul
25 04:15:25 2015, 10.10, x86_64Trees: local/main stable/main
stable/cryptoXcode.app: 6.4Xcode command-line tools: 6.4.0.0.1.1435007323
Max. Fink build jobs: 4
I got this same error in trying to install ghostscript, I think, on another
machine a few days ago, but relegated it to a to-do list for later. I doubt
that it's connected in any way with X11.
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] XQuartz 2.7.7 on OSX 10.10.4
From: alexanderk.han...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:49:17 -0700
CC: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net
To: mike.wil...@hotmail.com
On Jul 25, 2015, at 11:10, Mike Wilkes <mike.wil...@hotmail.com> wrote:Ah so,
yes, of course...fink rebuild or fink reinstall. I am building up the courage
to uninstall XQuartz 2.7.5 and try 2.7.7 again, this time doing the fink
rebuild of xinitrc after installing 2.7.7...maybe that will do the trick. So
do I have the order correct? First uninstall 2.7.5, then install 2.7.7, then
fink rebuild xinitrc? Anything else I might be missing?
“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in
order to recount it.” Gabriel García Márquez
That seems OK to me.
—AKH
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