[Xquartz-dev] 2.1.2 release candidate

[Jeremy Huddleston]

oh... also, if you can try installing the 2.1.2 rc, what happens if  
you run 'startx' from Terminal.app?  Also, what happens if you run  
'unset DISPLAY; startx' from Terminal.app?

On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:42, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> Hmm... I'm concerned about this... I have one machine that I've only  
> been installing these packages on.  I did this rc on top of 2.1.1  
> and it worked fine.  I don't see why doing it over the released  
> leopard would cause a problem.  Did you reboot after installing  
> 2.1.2?  And after installing 2.1.1?  Can you see if you have  
> anything in your logs that will help (you should be able to find it  
> in Console.app if you remember what time you did this at).
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:28, Jamie Kennea wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>>> I've thrown together a release candidate for 2.1.2 containing our  
>>> most recent fixes.  Most notably, the way X starts up has been  
>>> changed to use xinit.  This should fix our fast-user-switching  
>>> regression, but hasn't been stress tested too extensively (I've  
>>> been using it for the past couple weeks, but I don't start & stop  
>>> X much).  Please try it out, and let me know if there are any  
>>> problems with the installer or show-stopper bugs.
>>
>> I just tried to install it on a clean Leopard machine (i.e. with  
>> the original Apple X11) and it wouldn't start up X11 when clicking  
>> on the icon or going into Terminal.app and typing "xterm".  
>> Unfortunately the machine was not under my control (the sysadmin  
>> was hovering over me and annoyed that I just broke X11 on the  
>> machine), so I didn't have much chance to debug why.
>>
>> Installing 2.1.1 over the top fixed the issue.
>>
>> Jamie
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