[Xquartz-dev] oops, rc2 moved the launchd_startx fiile (Re: XQuartz 2.7.10_rc2)
Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
jeremyhu at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 03:46:27 PDT 2016
Yeah, that should work as a workaround.
The real fix is to update the postinstall script to detect this situation and advise users to logout and log back in.
--Jeremy
> On Sep 11, 2016, at 01:59, SciFi <sci-fi at hush.ai> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Thank you for recompiling 2.7.10_rc1 for us old-folk as ~_rc2.
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> 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:
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> - -*- 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:
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> # cd /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit
> # ln -s ../../../libexec/launchd_start?
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> (yes as root)
>
> so this seems to work
> as the system.log shows now.
> ;p
>
> - -*- end quick fix for 2.7.10_rc2 -*-
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> And so
> I am using ~_rc2 with the Pan newsreader
> to enter this message thru the GMane system.
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