August 2009 - Xquartz-dev - lists.macosforge.org

Indestructible xterms
by Jamie Kennea 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi Jeremy, I'm reporting here a bug which I've just reported via radar (#7183214): I have a series of scripts that create xterms which ssh to other machines on my network, they have the following form: #! /bin/tcsh /usr/X11/bin/xterm -bg CornSilk -T my_computer -e ssh -Y user(a)my_computer.local The issue which has arisen with Snow Leopard X11 (2.3.4 xorg- server-1.4.2-apple45), is that these windows when created cannot be closed by clicking the window close button (red circle). They can be closed by logging out, or using xkill. Cheers, Jamie

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X11 2.4.0 vs nedit 5.6-cvs20081118
by Jack Howarth 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

I have been trying to solve some issues with the lesstif-0.95.2 and nedit fink packages on i386, powerpc and x86_64. I believe I have solved the lesstif 0.95.2 bus errors (which was due to missing braces from a debian patch accepted upstream)... --- lesstif-0.95.2/lib/Xm-2.1/CutPaste.c.org 2009-08-27 21:44:12.000000000 -0400 +++ lesstif-0.95.2/lib/Xm-2.1/CutPaste.c 2009-08-27 21:45:25.000000000 -0400 @@ -1028,9 +1028,11 @@ /* XChangeProperty expects a buffer of longs when receiving 32 bits data, MEUHH */ if (sizeof(long) != 4) + { convert_buf = XtMalloc(len * sizeof(long)); for (i = 0; i < len; i++) convert_buf[i] = data[i]; + } break; case 16: The ability to copy and paste in nedit 5.5 still seems non-functional under i386 fink. Upgrading nedit to the same 5.6-cvs20081118 debian sid tarball solved the paste problem with one oddity. I have to disable ""Update Pasteboard when clipboard changes" in the Preferences of X11 or I get an error message... XmClipboardInquireLength() failed: clipboard locked. when I try to paste text from one nedit window to another (but not when I copy the text beforehand). Has anyone else run into this issue yet? Jack

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Re: [Xquartz-dev] unable to turn off automatic checking for updates
by Dave Ray 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Yes, that seemed to do the trick. Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche(a)math.ntnu.no> wrote: > I think there is a good chance that > > defaults write org.x.X11 SUEnableAutomaticChecks -boolean false > > will do the trick. I am too lazy to find out if it really does, so > please let us know. > > - Harald >

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unable to turn off automatic checking for updates
by Dave Ray 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Just wondering, is it intentional for X11 to check for updates on every launch? There appears to be no way to turn that off (I prefer to do it only manually.) Using the latest 2.4 release.

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Not autoswitching X11 -> Aqua -> X11
by Eeri Kask 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hello Xquartz users, Having now used MacOSX and Xquartz for a couple of weeks let me report about (and ask for help in dealing with) the problem of the periodical, automatic, not by the user initiated switching of fullscreen X11 to Aqua ... and back to X11 again, this all happening definitely in a less time in duration than a second. As Mr Jeremy Huddleston in a private conversation mentioned this is a known issue affecting several users and having been reported repeatedly, so I am not hesitant to pick this issue up here. :-) At first sight it seemed this phenomenon happens about once per hour, a longer observation revealed it happens at the same time *exactly* once per hour, the time-point probably depending on the moment the machine is started. A quick impression mislead this phenomenon being a Finder issue as the left pane showing mounted local and remote filesystems got visibly re-rendered at that approximate frequency. Though, this proved false (I even disconnected the ethernet cable and ran few days without a network in order to exclude remote, e.g. "nmbd"-related issues). As it seemed like a "cron"-daemon-like problem I purposefully started shutting down system processes as much as I could, please find attached the minimal process list I ended up after booting into running a usable computing environment which still includes a configuration showing this X11->Aqua->X11 phenomenon. (Being new to MacOS, not knowing any better I had to scramble Finder, Dock, Spotlight, etc *.app/ directories to keep them all off while booting ... I am very grateful to any hint how to accomplish this by some less-intrusive method, e.g. some appropriate launchd-setting or whatever is the intended method for that.) Looking at this process list there seem not very many candidates hiding the problem, and simply shooting off "UserEventAgent" I finally could reproduce this screen-switching phenomenon willfully. It appears this service is automatically started anew and during this time I always observed the screen-switching. So it appears in my case the problem is in /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/iCalAlarmAgent.plugin/ as having wiped away this directory these X11->Aqua->X11 unintended switches instantly stopped, and having closely observed the X11-behaviour for few days now since then I can confidently confirm this phenomenon is gone. Here I have to stop and humbly ask anybody with access to the appropriate source code to take a further look at the issue, I am willing to assist with experimenting by running code should this turn out helpful. :-) Greetings, Eeri Kask P.S. Process list: UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 0 1 0 0 31 0 600820 564 - Ss ?? 0:00.09 /sbin/launchd 0 11 1 0 31 0 600256 1292 - Ss ?? 0:00.50 /usr/libexec/kextd 0 12 1 0 31 0 79220 3240 - Ss ?? 0:00.50 /usr/sbin/DirectoryService 0 13 1 0 31 0 600236 444 - Ss ?? 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/notifyd 0 14 1 0 31 0 601332 468 - Ss ?? 0:00.12 /usr/sbin/syslogd 0 15 1 0 31 0 601812 1820 - Ss ?? 0:00.33 /usr/sbin/configd 1 16 1 0 31 0 599644 676 - Ss ?? 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/distnoted 65 17 1 0 31 0 601592 1160 - Ss ?? 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd 0 21 1 0 31 0 602020 1844 - Ss ?? 0:00.08 /usr/sbin/securityd -i 213 26 1 0 31 0 77272 916 - Ss ?? 0:00.02 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/usbmuxd -launchd 0 27 1 0 31 0 599620 288 - Ss ?? 0:00.10 /usr/sbin/update 0 28 1 0 31 0 599660 680 - Ss ?? 0:00.01 /sbin/SystemStarter 1001 32 1 0 63 0 363496 5180 - Ss ?? 0:00.25 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console 0 33 1 0 31 0 599736 652 - Ss ?? 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/KernelEventAgent 0 35 1 0 31 0 600184 604 - Ss ?? 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/hidd 0 36 1 0 50 0 604856 1016 - Ss ?? 0:00.02 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd 0 38 1 0 63 0 599664 708 - Ss ?? 0:00.01 /sbin/dynamic_pager -F /private/var/vm/swapfile 0 41 1 0 31 0 599744 940 - Ss ?? 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd 0 45 1 0 31 0 86976 2012 - Ss ?? 0:00.11 /usr/sbin/blued 0 46 1 0 31 0 599676 672 - Ss ?? 0:00.01 autofsd 0 48 1 0 31 0 75712 1664 - Ss ?? 0:00.18 /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw 0 53 1 0 31 0 83032 5532 - Ss ?? 0:00.46 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd 88 56 1 0 63 0 436520 31448 - Ss ?? 0:02.44 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources/WindowServer -daemon 0 85 1 0 31 0 135500 3220 - S ?? 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/aksusbd 1001 91 1 0 31 0 599796 512 - Ss ?? 0:00.04 /sbin/launchd 1001 98 91 0 63 0 341436 2836 - S ?? 0:00.15 /usr/sbin/UserEventAgent -l Aqua 1001 100 91 0 31 0 600716 588 - S ?? 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/pboard 1001 101 91 0 47 0 431828 14368 - R ?? 0:01.97 /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal -psn_0_20485 0 102 1 0 63 0 77548 1744 - Ss ?? 0:00.06 /usr/sbin/coreaudiod 1001 104 91 0 31 0 116080 2688 - S ?? 0:00.35 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/ATSServer 1001 195 91 0 63 0 462720 19744 - S ?? 0:00.55 /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin -psn_0_32776 1001 229 91 0 31 0 600172 688 - S ?? 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/X11/bin/startx 1001 279 229 0 31 0 600908 524 - S ?? 0:00.00 /usr/X11/bin/xinit /Users/eeri/.xinitrc -- /usr/X11/bin/X :0 -auth /Users/eeri/.serverauth.229 1001 280 279 0 31 0 76392 628 - S ?? 0:00.00 /usr/X11/bin/X :0 -auth /Users/eeri/.serverauth.229 1001 378 279 0 31 0 79932 2612 - S ?? 0:00.03 xterm -geometry 80x60 0 110 101 0 31 0 76592 1128 - Ss s000 0:00.01 login -pf eeri 1001 111 110 0 31 0 600252 1148 - S s000 0:00.13 -bash 1001 379 378 0 31 0 600172 1052 - Ss+ s001 0:00.03 bash [end]

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Check for X11 Updates option sometimes greyed out
by Adam Mercer 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Hi I've noticed that sometimes the "Check for X11 Updates..." menu option is greyed out, and the only way to make is accessible is to quit X and restart. Has anyone else seen this? Cheers Adam

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Re: [Xquartz-dev] Problem compiling xorg-server-1.4.2-apple47 and xorg-server-1.5.3-apple14 in MacPorts
by Peter Dyballa 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Am 20.08.2009 um 16:00 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston: > That being said, it looks like your MacPorts is out of date. Make > sure you do: > > sudo port -v selfupdate > sudo port -v upgrade outdated As with Fink I usually start this way... -- Greetings Pete "What do you think of Western Civilisation?" "I think it would be a good idea!" – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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2.4.0 crash with xfig
by Viv Kendon 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

I have a (repeatable) crash with xfig. Unfortunately, I don't use xfig often enough to know when it last didn't crash X11. Here is the console log first: 19/08/2009 11:49:26 ReportCrash[7447] Formulating crash report for process X11.bin[4030] 19/08/2009 11:49:27 ReportCrash[7447] Formulating crash report for process xfig[7404] 19/08/2009 11:49:27 ReportCrash[7447] Formulating crash report for process xfig[7404] 19/08/2009 11:49:27 ReportCrash[7447] Saved crashreport to /Users/viv/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/X11.bin_2009-08-19-114922_pneu.crash using uid: 4270 gid: 1005, euid: 4270 egid: 1005 19/08/2009 11:49:27 com.apple.launchd[869] ([0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11[4030]) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 7404 PPID 1 xfig 19/08/2009 11:49:27 com.apple.launchd[869] ([0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11[4030]) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 4268 PPID 1 xterm 19/08/2009 11:49:27 com.apple.launchd[869] ([0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11[4030]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault 19/08/2009 11:49:27 [0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11 xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "/tmp/launch-fwApBY/:0" 19/08/2009 11:49:27 [0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11 xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "/tmp/launch-fwApBY/:0" 19/08/2009 11:49:27 [0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11 xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "/tmp/launch-fwApBY/:0" 19/08/2009 11:49:27 [0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11 xfig3.2.5: SIGBUS signal trapped 19/08/2009 11:49:27 [0x0-0xe10e1].org.x.X11 xfig: figure empty or not modified - exiting 19/08/2009 11:49:27 org.x.startx[4073] /usr/X11/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost. 19/08/2009 11:49:27 org.x.startx[4073] waiting for X server to shut down 19/08/2009 11:49:27 ReportCrash[7447] Saved crashreport to /Users/viv/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/xfig_2009-08-19-114927_pneu.crash using uid: 4270 gid: 1005, euid: 4270 egid: 1005 19/08/2009 11:49:27 ReportCrash[7447] Saved crashreport to /Users/viv/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/xfig_2009-08-19-114927_pneu.crash using uid: 4270 gid: 1005, euid: 4270 egid: 1005 you can see by the end of it, this time it has even taken down the Crash Reporter! I had tried to select all and copy from the details winow of the gui. This worked yesterday on a different machine, and the attached file X11crash090818.txt contains the contents of that window. Also attached are a corresponding pair (i.e. yesterday's) crash reports. What happens from a user point of view is that everything is going swimmingly editing and drawing a figure, and the first time the export function (to save as a pdf, jpg, whatever) is called it works as expected. But the second time export is selected from the file menu, the whole lot dies. xfig and associated dependencies have been installed via fink. Am happy to try provide more info if you let me know what would be useful. Am also happy to try rebuilding xfig and dependencies, but if it is purely an xfig problem, surely it shouldn't take out the xserver like that? -- Viv ________________________________________________ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv tel: +44 113 343 4864 Physics and Astronomy Quantum Information Group University of Leeds

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Problem compiling xorg-server-1.4.2-apple47 and xorg-server-1.5.3-apple14 in MacPorts
by Peter Dyballa 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Hello! Is this the right place to report my problem? Building xorg-server Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_xor g-server/work/xorg-server-1.4.2-apple47" && make all " returned error 2 Command output: /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:83: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'XShmAttach' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:83: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:83: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:85: error: parse error before 'XShmDetach' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:86: error: parse error before '*' token /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:88: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'XShmDetach' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:88: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:88: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:90: error: parse error before 'XShmPutImage' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:91: error: parse error before '*' token /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:102: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'XShmPutImage' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:102: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:102: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:104: error: parse error before 'XShmGetImage' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:105: error: parse error before '*' token /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:111: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'XShmGetImage' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:111: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:111: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:113: error: parse error before '*' token /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:114: error: parse error before '*' token /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:122: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'XShmCreateImage' /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:122: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:122: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:125: error: parse error before '*' token /opt/local/include/X11/extensions/XShm.h:132: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype miscrinit.c: In function 'miScreenInit': miscrinit.c:241: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ShmRegisterFbFuncs' miscrinit.c:241: warning: nested extern declaration of 'ShmRegisterFbFuncs' make[1]: *** [miscrinit.lo] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 Both share this message. -- Greetings Pete "What do you think of Western Civilisation?" "I think it would be a good idea!" – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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2.4.0 released
by Jeremy Huddleston 15 Aug '09

15 Aug '09

Thanks for everyone's help testing the 2.4.0 betas and release candidates. I've decided to finalize the 2.4.0 release: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-2.4.0.dmg http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.4.0 This release is almost the same as 2.4.0-rc2, but with an updated xterm and font-utils. --Jeremy

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