[Xquartz-dev] X.Org X Server 1.9.2 in MacPorts fails

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Nov 2, 2010, at 17:57, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Xrdb is executed, until xinit reports:
> 
> 	Notice /opt/local/bin/xset:  bad font path element (#8), possible causes are:
> 	Notice     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> 	Notice     Directory missing fonts.dir
> 	Notice     Incorrect font server address or syntax

>From your info below, it's complaining about /System/Library/Fonts, so you should look into that...

> Then my init scripts are executed, 11-fontpath.sh, 12-TeX-fontpath.sh, 50-clients.sh, and 99-blackbox.sh. One version of GNU Emacs complains about missing charsets, which should be fatal. Next follows:
> 
> 	Notice     xinit: connection to X server lost
> 	Notice     waiting for X server to shut down
> 	Notice     Quitting Xquartz
> 	Notice     Connection lost to X server `:0.0'
> 
> System.log has additionally:
> 
> 	Nov  3 00:59:32 Latsche com.apple.launchd[1] (org.macports.privileged_startx[26988]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 27180 PPID 26994 fc-cache
> 	Nov  3 00:59:32 Latsche com.apple.launchd[1] (org.macports.privileged_startx[26988]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 26994 PPID 1 bash

Those don't mean anything... you need to include the lines above where the server quit...

> Previously, with xorg-server-devel @1.9.1_0, all was fine. It *was*, because it now shows the same error. Commenting all Emacs clients does not change anything, blackboxwm crashes. So it must be some library which was installed recently...

Yeah, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 are pretty much the same except for one small change.

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I doubt the server quitting has anything to do with the font paths...