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Anonymous
2001-11-05
2001-11-07
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2001-11-05

    ... I didn't manage to get X running.

    After the tunkey-installation on osx startx complained about not finding some libs. The simple-minded I am I created some symlinks because there were some similar libs around; namely:
    libICE.6.dylib -> libICE.6.3.dylib
    libSM.6.dylib -> libSM.6.0.dylib
    libX11.6.dylib -> libX11.6.2.dylib
    libXext.6.dylib -> libXext.6.4.dylib
    libXmuu.1.dylib -> libXmuu.1.0.dylib
    libXt.6.dylib -> libXt.6.0.dylib
    that didn't help much:

    [localhost:~] admin% startx -- -quartz
    Could not start XDarwin Quartz X server.
    xinit:  Server error.
    [localhost:~] admin%please help me, I feel pretty helpless without even an XF86Config file to play around ;-)

    best regards
    robert

     
    • proclus realm

      proclus realm - 2001-11-05

      A small percentage of X installations are not fully installed, but we have not yet determined the reason for this.  The work around is to reinstall the Xserver.

      pkg_add -f http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/XFree86-4.1.0_4.tgz

      Regards,
      proclus

       
      • Anonymous

        Anonymous - 2001-11-06

        ... unfortunately something does really seem to go wrong.

        [localhost:~/Desktop] root# pkg_add -f XFree86-4.1.0_4.tgz
        tar: Cannot add file man/man3/XtAddTimeout.3.gz: No such file or directory
        tar: Cannot add file man/man3/XtAppAddTimeout.3.gz: No such file or directory
        tar: Cannot add file include/X11/bitmaps/stipple: No such file or directory
        tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
        tar: Cannot add file lib/X11/doc/html/XtAddTimeout.3.html: No such file or directory
        tar: Cannot add file lib/X11/doc/html/XtAppAddTimeout.3.html: No such file or directory
        tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
        tar: lib/X11/rstart: Could not create symlink to `/etc/X11/rstart': File exists
        tar: lib/X11/xkb: Could not create symlink to `/etc/X11/xkb': File exists
        tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
        pkg_add: extract_plist: can not invoke 73 byte tar pipeline: tar cf -  'lib/X11/rstart' 'lib/X11/xkb'|tar --unlink -xf - -C /usr/X11R6
        [localhost:~/Desktop] root#

        The errors at startup are the same now.

        In the meantime I installed plain X on another volume and it works quite good - is there a possibility to merge there working things ? ;-)
        best regards
        robert

         
        • proclus realm

          proclus realm - 2001-11-07

          We have had a handful of users with this kind of problem, and it appears to be the only bug that we have encountered.  I wish I could tell you why, but thanks for the tip.  I have been passing it along to those who ask.

          In addtion, MacGimp has been running a story about their Xserver developement efforts, which should also address these kinds of problems.

          http://www.macgimp.org/article.php?sid=67

          Finally, I have been considering another workaround, which we have not tested yet.  Here it is.

          pkg_add -f http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/XFree86-4.0.3.tgz

          pkg_add -f http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/XFree86-4.1.0_4.tgz

          That might help with the linkage problems that several users have reported.

          Regards,

          proclus

           

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