[Xquartz-dev] Getting bad DISPLAY value during use of 2.6.1-2.6.2 (not with 2.6.0 & before).

[sci-fi at hush.ai]

> On 04/24/2011 at 11:44 AM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:On Apr 24, 2011, at 09:31, sci-fi at hush.ai wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I think DISPLAY is getting a weird value on my system here.
> > 
> > We've completely rebooted, and this is still occurring on my system
> > with any of the 2.6.1-2.6.2 incarnations of Xquartz.
> > (IIRC this didn't happen with 2.6.0 and earlier.)
> > Presently I have the beta1 of 2.6.2 installed and trying to get it
> > started-up here.
> > (Yes I did re-run the installer for 2.6.2_beta1 after the 10.6.7/etc
> > system updates.)
> > 
> > The user's env-var matches what launchctl returns:
> > 
> > $ launchctl getenv DISPLAY
> > /tmp/launch-s9kPWX/org.x:0
> 
> You should have
> /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
> 
> What is the output of "launchctl list org.macosforge.xquartz.startx"

$ launchctl list org.macosforge.xquartz.startx
{
	"Label" = "org.macosforge.xquartz.startx";
	"LimitLoadToSessionType" = "Background";
	"OnDemand" = true;
	"LastExitStatus" = 0;
	"TimeOut" = 30;
	"ProgramArguments" = (
		"/opt/X11/bin/startx";
	);
	"EnableTransactions" = true;
	"TransactionCount" = -1;
	"Sockets" = {
		"org.macosforge.xquartz:0" = (
			file-descriptor-object;
		);
	};
};


> > <snip/>
> > 
> > (There is no critter named /tmp/.X11-unix (shown via ls -al) presently
> > on my system.
> > The /tmp dir itself does have root:wheel ownership with "drwxrwxrwt"
> > flags.)
> 
> It should be created by /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist 
> 
> What is the output of "sudo launchctl list org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx"

$ sudo launchctl list org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx
Password:
{
	"Label" = "org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx";
	"LimitLoadToSessionType" = "System";
	"OnDemand" = true;
	"LastExitStatus" = 0;
	"TimeOut" = 120;
	"ProgramArguments" = (
		"/opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/privileged_startx";
		"-d";
		"/opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/privileged_startx.d";
	);
	"EnableTransactions" = true;
	"TransactionCount" = -1;
	"MachServices" = {
		"org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx" = mach-port-object;
	};
};


> […]

During these lists, none of the X (sub)tasks are running now.

BTW I dug a bit and found:
$ ls -al /tmp/launch-34Cqdu
total 0
drwx------  2 scifi wheel 102 Apr 24 10:25 .
drwxrwxrwt 11 root  wheel 544 Apr 24 11:56 ..
srwx------  1 scifi wheel   0 Apr 24 10:25 org.macosforge.xquartz:0

so _something_ was trying to work right.

But the timestamps might tell something -- the "wrong" one might've been created during when we rebooted, 19-minutes earlier:
$ ls -al /tmp/launch-s9kPWX
total 0
drwx------  2 scifi wheel 102 Apr 24 10:06 .
drwxrwxrwt 11 root  wheel 544 Apr 24 11:56 ..
srwx------  1 scifi wheel   0 Apr 24 10:06 org.x:0


Another BTW -- I don't have anything like ~/.x* critters either, nor in /etc .  ;)

Thanks again.