[Xquartz-dev] Tiger fixes in 1.4.2-apple24 and 1.4.2-apple25, now 1.4.2-apple28

[Jeremy Huddleston]

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.