[Xquartz-dev] No window manager redux

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Thu Jun 23 12:48:30 PDT 2016


> On Jun 23, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at humancapitaldev.com> wrote:
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> I made more attempts to figure out what’s going on with no success.
> 
> First, I removed all login-time shell scripts, no change. Then I uninstalled XQuartz, rebooted, reinstalled it, and it worked as expected only once. After another reboot it now fails as it did before.
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> Observed behavior is that xquartz will start, launch an xterm with no decoration (there is no window manager), wait several minutes, then terminate with no warning.
> 
> At launch it logs messages saying “syntax error”, “expr: syntax error”, “unable to write ‘random state’”, and then starts repeating “waiting for X server to begin accepting connections”. After several minutes it logs “/opt/X11/bin/xinit: giving up” and terminates.

Can you please provide the exact log lines instead of summarizing?

Thanks,
Jeremy


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