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AppleMatt

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Mar 17, 2003
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Ok guys, this one's really got me stumped. It looks like it should be an easy fix, but I'll throw it out into the wild;

X11 silently crashes about 10 seconds after starting. In that ~10 seconds I can use it perfectly fine, browse menus, change preferences (quickly!) etc, but no matter what, it crashes. Also, any apps I try to open in X11 just sit there, while it's "running" for 10 seconds and after it's crashed. They never load.

From console.log;
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1024x768 @ (0,0)
Quitting XDarwin...

From X11.crash.log;
Host Name: Matts-PowerBook.local
Date/Time: 2004-03-30 22:16:50 +0100
OS Version: 10.3.3 (Build 7F44)
Report Version: 2

Command: X11
Path: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 3553
Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

dyld: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 can't open library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)

I've performed all the usual, repairing permissions etc etc. Any ideas?
I would guess it's a bad installation, but I've installed it a number of times from 10.3 CD3 :confused:

AppleMatt
 

abhishekit

macrumors 65816
Nov 6, 2003
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akron , ohio
trash preferences..if you havent done it yet...dont know what else to say...though from the x11 crash log, it appears what you said..bad installation...
 

ElectricSheep

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Feb 18, 2004
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Wilmington, DE
It seems obvious to me, but I don't if you have already gone this route.

Bring up a terminal window and type:

ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib

See what you get.
 

AppleMatt

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Mar 17, 2003
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Right. Got it working.

I deleted absolutely everything related to X11, could possibly have looked at X11 or heard about it.
I considered deleting files who were there when I talked about X11, but decided that was overkill.

Then I re-installed it...same problem :mad:
but, I deleted the preferences and started it again. A message appeared saying something along the lines of the display settings were being used from another source, did I want to use the default location? Obviously I said yes, and it works!

Huzzah!

AppleMatt
 
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