[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc5 quitting and restarting

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 13:30, John Koren wrote:

> Since 2.3.2_rc4 I am facing a problem with quitting X11.app and
> restarting it again.
> Two things happen depending on how long I wait before the restart of  
> X11.app:
>
> 1) When I restart shortly after quitting, rxvt launched from xinitrc
> starts up but the quartz-wm does not seem to complete drawing the
> entire frame, just the white background. After that X11 stall
> permanently.

Can you please send me a sample of the program in this hung state.

> 2) If I wait longer after to restart, rxvt only flashes on the desktop
> and disappears immediately, and again X11 stalls.

Again, please send me a sample.

> After the stall, if I try to kill the X11 related processes, the X11
> keeps restarting on its own and the only way  I can get rid of it is
> to reboot the system.

What is being output to the system.log during this process?  (Check  
Console.app)

> I wonder if other are facing this issue.

First I've heard of it...

> One more thing. I use tcsh, nevertheless before 2.3.2_rc4 I had no
> problem inheriting the correct environment. Now, after 2.3.2_rc4, I
> had to put "cd ~" into my .xinitrc otherwise rxvt launched by xinitrc
> would start at the root level "/" and not my home directory.

Well, you should be fine with tcsh using 2.3.2_rc5.

Maybe I should put a 'cd $HOME' in startx...

Please open bug reports for these issues and include samples of the  
program in the bad state.