[Xquartz-dev] The DL1605 article at Apple Support -- is it in XQuartz?

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Fri Oct 26 03:42:23 PDT 2012


Yes, that fixes the issue that caused me to rush a release of XQuartz 2.7.4, wine bug #31751 and XQuartz bug #649:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31751
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/649


On Oct 26, 2012, at 03:08, SciFi <sci-fi at hush.ai> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> May I ask if XQuartz-2.7.4 has the fix(es) noted in the new article at
> <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1605> (X11 Update for MacOS-10.7.5) please?
> 
> I am still running 10.6.8 with 2.7.4, so I cannot see if it would help my
> situation here.
> 
> To explain:
> 
> My builds of Pan (from the git.gnome.org/pan2 repo) seem to suddenly
> "disappear" for no apparent reason.
> 
> For a long time (many many months), there was indication that Pan had "lost"
> the X11 socket (under /tmp/.X11-unix/).  I believe there were no crashreports
> created when this occurred (I can't find any).  My sense was that when Pan
> was online, it was busy fetching binary NNTP postings from its download queue;
> when Pan was offline, however, I had no idea what could cause it.
> 
> Funny thing that my other X11 apps were _still_ running, even other Pan tasks
> (with different $PAN_HOMEs), and the socket itself had *not* been really
> "disappeared".  ;/
> 
> Lately, tho, the Pan project has new code now, but it still "disappears".
> Now I can see a "Bus error" or "Segment trap" on its Terminal, and a
> crashreport does get generated -- seems to be inside a GNU TLS call (the
> project has had SSL support, if the NNTP session can do it, added recently).
> This occurs even with it offline, totally in the background (hidden and/or
> minimized), with me not needing to worry about it.  And again other X11 tasks
> stay alive (altho mostly offline, too).  I am doubly bewildered now.  ;\
> 
> I filed a bugreport against Pan, but it never dawned on me that this could
> be a X11/XQuartz related thing.
> 
> So, I have become desperately interested in the above update (DL1605), please.
> 
> (But I will investigate to see if GNU TLS has an update.
> [BTW:  My research indicates that the version 3.x, needed for certain
>  functionality in Pan, is not available with either MacPorts or Fink.
>  I did report this fact to the list, in a roundabout way, and I thought
>  Jeremy said he might be able to get it added to MacPorts at least.
>  This and other reasons are why I don't use any kind of pkg-manager,
>  making me feel like a "loner" in this hobby.  ;>  ])
> 
> 
> Thanks for taking time to read this.
> 
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