December 2008 - Xquartz-dev - lists.macosforge.org

X11 2.3.1 xgterm error
by Glenn Eychaner 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

I've been getting this sort of error sequence associated with "frozen" (no response to keyboard or close button) xgterm windows in X11 2.3.1. It's possible you've already fixed it, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention. Xlib: sequence lost (0x166a0 > 0xa7) in reply type 0x0! xgterm: warning, error event received: X Error of failed request: 0 Major opcode of failed request: 32 (X_UngrabKeyboard) Serial number of failed request: 26272 Current serial number in output stream: 167 xgterm: warning, error event received: X Error of failed request: 32 Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow) Serial number of failed request: 52480 Current serial number in output stream: 167 xgterm: warning, error event received: X Error of failed request: 0 Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow) Serial number of failed request: 52480 Current serial number in output stream: 167 Xlib: sequence lost (0x1bf00 > 0xa7) in reply type 0x0! xgterm: warning, error event received: X Error of failed request: 0 Major opcode of failed request: 0 () Serial number of failed request: 48896 Current serial number in output stream: 167 xgterm: warning, error event received: -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner(a)lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory

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Re: [Xquartz-dev] Initial xterm a login shell?
by Richard Tobin 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

> >> The ancestry of the shell in the inital xterm (as shown by ps l) is > >> > >> bash > >> xterm > >> login > >> X11 > >> launchd > >> launchd (process 1) > >> > >> Where is the login shell? > It probably execed the xterm... The full login command is /usr/bin/login -fp richard /bin/sh -c /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm /bin/sh appears to be bash, but it's not the same as /bin/bash and it doesn't run either .bashrc or .bash_login. Presumably it's bash compiled in standard-Posix mode, or something like that. -- Richard -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Default xinitrc file
by Peter Dyballa 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hello! On lines 48 if [ -d /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then 49 for f in /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*.sh ; do 50 [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f" 51 done 52 unset f 53 fi the xinitrc file checks whether there are some shell scripts to execute, for example -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete admin 718 24 Nov 12:27 10-fontdir.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete admin 53 24 Nov 12:27 99-quartz-wm.sh then a window manager and some X clients are are prepared for launching: 57 twm & 58 xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & 59 xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & 60 xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & 61 exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login I see one problem (two on Tiger) with /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/ xinitrc.d/99-quartz-wm.sh and its contents, a one-liner: [ -x /usr/bin/quartz-wm ] && exec /usr/bin/quartz-wm (on Tiger quartz-wm lives in /usr/X11R6/bin) which IMO stops execution of the xinitrc file on line #50 because of the "exec" keyword. So no X clients are launched. Am I wrong? -- Greetings Pete Make it simple, as simple as possible but no simpler. – Albert Einstein

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Re: [Xquartz-dev] Initial xterm a login shell?
by Richard Tobin 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

> The xterm is launched from a login shell, so even though the xterm > itself isn't a login shell, it has inherited from a true login shell. > So, you get the same effect if you are using bash as your shell. The ancestry of the shell in the inital xterm (as shown by ps l) is bash xterm login X11 launchd launchd (process 1) Where is the login shell? In my case it does appear to inherit the correct $PATH, but evidently it doesn't for some people - that was the origin of this discussion. But because it doesn't run my .bash_login, other things (in particular stty settings) are wrong. -- Richard -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Re: [Xquartz-dev] Initial xterm a login shell?
by Peter Dyballa 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Am 01.12.2008 um 16:00 schrieb Richard Tobin: > Where is the login shell? Try using pstree! (pstree -w will bring complete lines) You'll see which processes participated in creating the shell you're just in: pstree -w -p $$. -- Greetings Pete With Capitalism man exploits man. With communism it's the exact opposite.

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2.3.2_rc2
by Jeremy Huddleston 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Happy Turkey Day. I just rolled together another release candidate for 2.3.2. http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/X11-2.3.2_rc2.pkg I think we're pretty much set for release, but I wanted to check for any last show-stoppers. Please give this a thorough beating. The full release notes can be seen in our 2.3.2 draft release notes: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.3.2 The changes from 2.3.2_rc1 were minor server updates: # Improved support for running X11 without launchd # Improved support for running multiple X11 servers # Fixed dead-acute with the Czech and Greek layouts and updated packages from x.org: # xedit 1.1.2 # xproto 7.0.14 # cairo 1.8.4 # libpng 1.2.33 # libXaw 1.0.5 o libXaw.8.dylib is still provided from libXaw-1.0.4 for compatability # libXi 1.1.4 # xcb-util 0.3.1 Plus an update to libxcb which should make it play more nicely with the launchd DISPLAY. Thanks, Jeremy

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Initial xterm a login shell?
by Richard Tobin 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

This came up in a Usenet newsgroup. When I start X11, the initial xterm is not a login shell (no -ls argument). Some other people find that theirs is a login shell. Is this something that has changed between versions? I would have thought it made sense for it to be a login shell, so that you get your expected PATH and so on. -- Richard -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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