Hiya -

I'm trying to get a working X windows system on my PowerBook, but I'm 
having problems getting it started.

My setup: 10.2.1, Package manager version: 0.10.0.cvs, Distribution 
version: 0.4.0.cvs, XDarwin 1.1.

I installed the xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless packages, then the 
windowmaker package. I ran the wmaker.inst script to set up my GNUstep 
directory and .xinitrc, and fired up XDarwin.app.

But XDarwin quits immediately after asking me if I want rootless or 
not. This is a dump from Console.app:

> 2002-10-04 17:31:56.932 XDarwin[16556]
> XDarwin 1.1
>
> XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> Release Date: 11 March 2002
>       If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is
>       newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
>       reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
> Operating System: Darwin
> Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
> Thus no job control in this shell.
> TERM_PROGRAM: Undefined variable.
> /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/Resources/startXClients: 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: Permission denied
> /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/Resources/startXClients: exec: 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: cannot execute: Undefined error: 0
> 2002-10-04 17:31:57.339 XDarwin[16556] X client process terminated 
> with status 126.
> Display mode: Rootless Quartz
> Screen 0 added: 1152x747 @ (0,21)
> Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).
> Quitting XDarwin...

Reading through the FAQ and X11 docs on the fink site I saw that the 
'no access to tty' error is harmless, but I'm unsure about the 
'TERM_PROGRAM: Undefined variable' and the two '/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit' 
messages.

I checked the permissions on xinit:

> % ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  unknown  19808 Sep 13 23:44 /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit

It seems I don't have execute permission - but I'm reticent to go 
changing permissions on root owned files put there by fink.

Could this be the cause of the errors? I couldn't find any mention of 
this error in the fink docs, or on the XDarwin forums. Has anyone else 
had the same troubles?

Any help is most welcome - I'd like to get this working before the 
deadlines roll around!

Many thanks,

Henry.



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