All you said is that you started X11.app, so it's hard to say, since nobody can read your mind and know what all you did.
Did you change anything? If so, you have to _tell us what you did_. If you didn't change anything at all and X11 started, then I would argue that the issue is _not_ related to Fink. On 1/7/13 11:06 AM, Richard Miles wrote: > I started X11.app and it ran. So I guess its a fink related problem. > > On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > <snip> >>> >>> >>> >> >> I don't see anything in that stack trace which is from GNOME, or even >> otherwise from Fink. >> >> Try renaming your .xinitrc or .xinitrc.d (whichever you're using) to >> something else, like old.xinitrc or old.xinitrc.d , to keep X11 from >> finding them. Then try starting X11 again. If X11 starts up, then >> maybe there's a Fink-related problem to deal with and we can work on that. >> >> If, however, X11 doesn't start, then check if >> /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc was installed by Fink. Using >> >> head -n3 /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc >> >> is a quick way to do that. If yours came from Apple, then this command >> should give something like: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> >> userresources=$HOME/.Xresources >> >> And if it came from Apple, then your crash issue is probably not related >> to Fink at all, because you're now starting out with essentially the >> base X11 setup. On the other hand, if you get >> >> #! /bin/sh >> # $Id: sys-xinitrc-fink.in,v 1.5 2008/02/18 06:41:09 okayama Exp $ >> >> >> then your /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc came from Fink's xinitrc >> package. You can move it out of the way: >> >> sudo mv /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.bak >> >> and put your original one back. You may have a wide selection of >> /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.20* files, depending on your install >> history, but using "head -n3" on them, as above, is a quick way to >> figure out which one came with the system. Once you've found that, use >> >> udo mv /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.<stamp> /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc >> >> to put it back, replacing <stamp> by the actual timestamp of the >> system-installed version. Then try running X11 again. If it still >> doesn't work, you have a failure in essentially the base X11 setup, and >> Fink isn't playing a role. >> >> If your X11 startup succeeds, on the other hand, then something in your >> Fink tree is misbehaving, and we can try to debug that. Looking at the >> X11 output in either Console.app or by starting it using "startx" is >> usually way easier to understand than a stack trace. >> -- >> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. >> Fink User Liaison >> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > > Richard Miles > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
