x11 woes :(

goto your utilites folder and open your console and observe the messages it displays when you try and launch X11. Can you post them back here if they look relevant.

You can try fixing your problem by using the following command in your terminal

sudo fc-cache -f -v

you will be prompted to enter your admin password. The mac then recaches all your fonts it takes about 5 minutes. Once it has finished try relaunching X11.

FWIW, when I launch X11, which works fine, as does the GIMP, I get this in Console:

XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 2624x1024 @ (-1024,0)
Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!

And I took a look at the man entry for "fc-cache"--which exists, but has no options (I use the bash shell). Here's the synopsis:

NAME
fc-cache, fonts.cache - create an index of FreeType font files in a
directory

SYNOPSIS
fc-cache [directory-name ... ]

DESCRIPTION
If directory arguments are not given, fc-cache uses each directory in
the current font configuration. Each directory is scanned for font
files readable by FreeType. A cache is created which contains proper-
ties of each font and the associated filename. This cache is used to
speed application startup when using the fontconfig library.

FILES
fonts.cache Maps file names to font properties. Read by the font-
config library at application startup to locate appro-
priate fonts.

You might try launching Disk Utility and Repair Permissions. Then delete the x11 pref file:

"/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.x11.plist"

and try launching X11 again. Also, you might check in the Console Logs for a crash report. Click the Logs icons, expand ~/Library/Logs and then the CrashReporter and see if there is a report for X11.

Finally, you might try reposting your problem to the UNIX forum:

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735

I did a quick search there but didn't really find anything relevant.
Francine


Francine
Schwieder

Hi Christina have when you installed Tiger did you do a custom install and chose not to install the BSD subsystem.

Have you also not installed the Developer tools?

You would would need the bsd system to run X11 and some unix programs you want to compile yourself would need the developer tools.

You can check to see if the BSD subsystem was installed on your mac by opening a finder window and navigating to

/Library/Receipts

and in the list you should see

BSD.pkg

If it is not there you can install it from your Tiger install disk by going to

/Volumes/'Mac OS X Install Disk 1"/System/Installation/Packages/BSD.pkg

OK when you use the command i posted did you copy paste it into your terminal.

here it is again just in case.

sudo fc-cache -f -v

the command fc-cache is part of X11 so just to make sure you have it do these commands in your terminal press enter after each line

cd /usr/X11R6/bin

This will change directory, so your moving into the X11 directory.

ls

this command will list all the files in that directory , fc-cache should be in there. if it is try this command

sudo ./fc-cache -f -v

It just occured to me that if you just copied the X11 application itself from one mac to another then you don't have a full installtion of X11. You would need to install it from your tiger install disk but you said you had done that already.

Catitude

Quicksilver dual 1.5 gig Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Sorry, didn't mean to post this. Was just testing putting pictures in the posts.

Carry on.

I have a PowerBook that I connected to the iMac and it copied over everything from there.

I'm afraid I'm confused by this (and so may be your system). When you say you copied everything, just what do you mean? I'm also confused about what you have--do you have an old PowerBook and a new intel iMac? If that is the case the only things you should copy over would be your own data files. I'm concerned about the message that mentions Rosetta. It may be that if you did NOT install X11 from the install disk that came with the iMac, and also simply copied your user folder from the PowerBook to the iMac you could have a strange mix of incompatible files.
Francine


Francine
Schwieder