Was there anything more that happened after that? On Leopard, when I do that (with launchd disables):
Not when DISPLAY was set. When I launched Xquartz directly, I saw for a short time a form pop up. When it's unset I get:
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R7.4/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list!
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' AbortDDX Quitting Xquartz... Xquartz: start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died Exit 1
Yes, as I mentioned, this is because your fonts aren't cached. Run: sudo /usr/X11/bin/font_cache
When I try: "open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app" I get in Console:
X11.app: main(): argc=2 argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 argv[1] = -psn_0_9961473 Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC. X11.app: Could not connect to server (DISPLAY is not set). Starting X server. X11.app: Launching /usr/X11/bin/startx: argv[0] = /usr/bin/login argv[1] = -fp argv[2] = pete argv[3] = /bin/sh argv[4] = -c argv[5] = /usr/X11/bin/startx Last login: Mon Nov 24 00:24:30 on tty?? Welcome to Darwin! You have new mail. Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device). Thus no job control in this shell.
It looks like startx is stalling out in your ~/.bashrc or something... can you try debugging that.
X11 is running.
Really? How? I don't see it starting in your output. What does X11-
About show?
When I now invoke Xquartz for a short time a form is visible. Then X11 also finishes. Nothing more happens, because I failed to install xinit in a privileged environment. Doing so installs in /usr/X11/bin:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 6942 24. Nov 00:17 startx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 24664 24. Nov 00:17 xinit
Building in app/xinit/privileged_startx fails:
server.c: In function ‘server_main’: server.c:103: error: ‘LAUNCH_JOBKEY_MACHSERVICES’ undeclared (first use in this function) server.c:103: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once server.c:103: error: for each function it appears in.) server.c: In function ‘do_privileged_startx’: server.c:168: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘fts_open’ from incompatible pointer type make[1]: *** [server.o] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2
Leopard again ...
It looks like it's failing because of missing font caches.
I tried the X11 utilities and I also tried fc-cache. There was /usr/ X11/bin/fc-cache built (I used a Fink version).
Again, the application you need to run is sudo /usr/X11/bin/ font_cache ... which I just realized wouldn't be on your system. Grab it from here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/X11fonts-5.1/font_cache.... That takes care of running your mkfontdir, mkfontcache, etc...
Xdriinfo dies with a crash because it was badly built; otool -L lists:
/usr/X11R7.4/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0) ==? libGL.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.2.0, current version 1.2.0)
Yeah, I thought I fixed that in Mesa-7.0.4 though... Are you using 7.0.4?
I am. I even did it build and install twice, then with the "fixed" Mesa bin/mklib script.
Yeah, that patch didn't get into the 7.0 branch... See my email from last night.