On Dec 20, 2008, at 05:12, Peter Dyballa wrote:

Jeremy,

I think I've found the cause why these X servers from X11R7.4 won't launch! When debugging a problem in TeX I had to look into /tmp and found these directories:

drwx------ 3 x11 wheel 102 16 Dez 20:16 launch-MAAEET drwx------ 3 pete wheel 102 16 Dez 17:18 launch-PBeS8k drwx------ 3 pete wheel 102 16 Dez 20:24 launch-mO2Grc drwx------ 3 x11 wheel 102 16 Dez 20:07 launch-osj5UZ

Each contains one object inside:

srwx------ 1 pete wheel 0 16 Dez 17:18 :0

Because the :0 socket is hidden it's not found ... This unique time I could launch X11R7.4's Xorg server might have succeeded when Launch Service was not up-to-date, or whatever (I double-clicked the X11.app in /Applications/Utilities; in the  menu bar the X11 menu was very sparse then. The About entry in the  menu showed a different version then XFree 4.4.0.)

No, that has nothing to do with it. org.x.startx.plist just still gets installed on Tiger. You should delete it from /Library/ LaunchAgents... it doesn't have any effect on Tiger. Tiger uses the traditional X11 unix socket in /tmp/.X11-unix/ Try macports rather than compiling it on your own. Macports doesn't install that plist.