[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.3.1 on Leopard upgraded from Tiger

Glenn Eychaner geychaner at mac.com
Fri Dec 5 07:17:52 PST 2008


The subject line is misleading.  We're seeing the issues on machines  
which were NOT upograded from Tiger as well.

On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote:

> We're having a bunch of problems with the X11 2.3.1 package.
>
> 1) In the Customize Applications panel, the "Command" and "Name"  
> titles are reversed.
> 2) Frequently, the Applications menu stops being able to launch  
> Xterms.
> 3) We're getting occasional freezes of the whole X11 system.
>
> I have attached a system.log output from one of the machines that's  
> having the most severe problems.  I can only hope that stepping back  
> to 2.3.0 works, and that I don't have to rebuild a whole bunch of  
> machines.  But somehow I doubt it today.
>
> In particular, we see a lot of this when trying to launch terminals:
> Dec  5 11:52:42 ObsMac2 login[39217]: USER_PROCESS: 39217 tty??
> Dec  5 11:52:42 ObsMac2 login[39217]: DEAD_PROCESS: 39217 tty??

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Glenn Eychaner (geychaner at lco.cl)
Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory





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