[Xquartz-dev] No window manager redux

Daniel Seagraves dseagrav at humancapitaldev.com
Thu Jun 23 13:28:41 PDT 2016


> On Jun 23, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 23, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at humancapitaldev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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?

On launch:

6/23/16 3:21:47.745 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: expr: syntax error
6/23/16 3:21:47.748 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: expr: syntax error
6/23/16 3:21:48.157 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: unable to write 'random state'
6/23/16 3:21:48.428 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: xauth:  file /Users/dseagrav/.serverauth.1597 does not exist
6/23/16 3:21:51.544 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: 
6/23/16 3:21:53.554 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
6/23/16 3:21:55.563 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
6/23/16 3:21:57.567 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
6/23/16 3:21:59.575 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 

(this repeats every two seconds until…)

6/23/16 3:25:48.492 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
6/23/16 3:25:50.503 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
6/23/16 3:25:52.510 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
6/23/16 3:25:52.511 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: giving up
6/23/16 3:25:52.511 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: unable to connect to X server: Operation timed out
6/23/16 3:25:52.511 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
6/23/16 3:25:53.516 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to shut down 
6/23/16 3:25:53.516 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: server error
6/23/16 3:25:53.869 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[1596]: waiting for X server to shut down 




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