[Xquartz-dev] Fix?: crash at startup

Peter Collinson pc at hillside.co.uk
Sat Jun 28 23:30:01 PDT 2008


This was a DOH moment from me - sorry for the noise - I hadn't paid  
enough attention to the file I was pulling.

When you install this remember to do something like
	chmod 755 X11
before you start things up.

On 29 Jun 2008, at 06:53, Martin Costabel wrote:

> 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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