[Xquartz-dev] oops, rc2 moved the launchd_startx fiile (Re: XQuartz 2.7.10_rc2)

Sun Sep 11 01:59:43 PDT 2016

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Hi,

Thank you for recompiling 2.7.10_rc1 for us old-folk as ~_rc2.

Now, I've found another problem
but was able to do a quick symlink fix,
let me know if this is correct.
My typed notes says this:

- -*- quick fix for 2.7.10_rc2 -*-

Oops, upon starting the XQuartz.app from 2.7.10_rc2,
my system.log keeps repeatedly belching this error:

> Sep 11 02:45:00 SciFi com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[610] (org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[49123]): posix_spawn("/opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/launchd_startx", ...): No such file or directory
> Sep 11 02:45:00 SciFi com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[610] (org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[49123]): Exited with exit code: 1
> Sep 11 02:45:00 SciFi com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[610] (org.macosforge.xquartz.startx): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

I think the installer for 2.7.10_rc2 removed launchd_startx which used to be located as shown above.
Now, I found it under /opt/X11/libexec
so I quickly put a symlink for it, e.g.

# cd /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit
# ln -s ../../../libexec/launchd_start?

(yes as root)

so this seems to work
as the system.log shows now.
;p

- -*- end quick fix for 2.7.10_rc2 -*-

And so
I am using ~_rc2 with the Pan newsreader
to enter this message thru the GMane system.