[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.0-rc1
Jeremy Huddleston
jeremyhu at apple.com
Mon May 12 17:52:07 PDT 2008
What is the bundle version of /Applications/Utilities/X11.app ?
Browse to it in Finder.
Have you moved or copied X11.app anywhere?
On May 12, 2008, at 17:31, Merle Reinhart wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> Just tried it on top of 2.2.1. Doesn't work. I get:
> 5/12/08 8:28:56 PM org.x.startx[8835] Xquartz: Could not find a new
> enough X11.app LSFindApplicationForInfo() returned
> 5/12/08 8:28:56 PM org.x.startx[8835] X11.app = /
> Applications/Utilities/X11.app
> 5/12/08 8:28:56 PM org.x.startx[8835] Version = Unknown
> (0), Expected Version > 2.3.0
> intermixed with other message...over and over and over....infinite
> loop!
>
> Merle
>
>
> On May 12, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> I've just finished uploading the first release candidate for the
>> next X11 package installer. You can find it here:
>>
>> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-2.3.0_rc1.pkg
>>
>> Some notes (IMPORTANT, READ ME!!!):
>> The installer requires 10.5.3, so if you don't have access to a
>> seed of 10.5.3, you'll have to wait until release. This package
>> doesn't "really" need 10.5.3, but I don't want people to install
>> the 10.5.3 OS update after this package and then forget to
>> reinstall X11 because it will cause some issues due to the new
>> startup mechanism (you'll loose the X11 menus, etc).
>>
>> As of 2.3.0-rc1, the server bits are actually located in the
>> bundle. /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz is just a stub that "does the right
>> thing" to start the server (for now, it's just doing an exec(), but
>> it will be done via Mach-IPC in the future). This allowed us to
>> clean out all the extra cruft we had in xinit. There are some side-
>> effects to note:
>>
>> If you copied or moved your X11.app bundle from its default
>> location, you will need to update the copy with the new one after
>> installation. If you don't, you run the risk that /usr/X11/bin/
>> Xquartz will find the old one and you'll see messages to
>> Console.app indicating this. If X11 fails to start after updating
>> to 2.3.0, this is the most likely culprit. Check Console.app for
>> debugging messages that will tell you the location of X11.app that
>> Xquartz is finding.
>>
>> You will not be able to use any of the Xquartz binaries from
>> previous releases with this release, and visa-versa. That is why I
>> haven't made an updated binary drop for a while. From now on,
>> you'll need to grab X11-1.4.0-appleXX.bz2 and drop it over /
>> Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 rather than
>> updating /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz.
>>
>> ChangeLog:
>> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/ChangeLog
>>
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