[Xquartz-dev] Fix?: crash at startup

Martin Costabel costabel at wanadoo.fr
Sat Jun 28 22:53:50 PDT 2008


Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> No.  What I said is correct.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> On Jun 28, 2008, at 11:54, Peter Collinson wrote:
> 
>> Did you mean to say this?
>>
>> Shouldn't it go to /usr/X11/bin/Xquartx
>> ?
>>
>> On 25 Jun 2008, at 23:11, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>>> I have uploaded a new version of the server for testing.  1.4.2  
>>> should
>>> correct the startup crash that people have been seeing with 2.3.0-rc3
>>> and later.  Install 2.3.0-rc4, then grab http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/X11-1.4.2-apple2.bz2
>>> , decompress it and copy it to /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/
>>> Contents/MacOS/X11

To elaborate on Jeremy's answer for those who didn't watch all episodes:

In the 2.3.0-rc series, the two executables
/usr/X11/bin/Xquartz and 
/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 have changed roles. 
The latter is now the "real" X server, see
<http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2008-May/000711.html>

-- 
Martin



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