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...@hush.ai> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Hi, > > Thank you for recompiling 2.7.10_rc1 for us old-folk as ~_rc2. > > 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: > > - -*- 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: > >> 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 > > 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. > > # cd /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit > # ln -s ../../../libexec/launchd_start? > > (yes as root) > > so this seems to work > as the system.log shows now. > ;p > > - -*- end quick fix for 2.7.10_rc2 -*- > > And so > I am using ~_rc2 with the Pan newsreader > to enter this message thru the GMane system. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX1RWuAAoJEKkeWNKet7+KKeoH/iO9ePGlWPp3EoyCNQY4OFcA > gQlFjSRs3KxufCwqaM1pFkkQZAlMsOEwtkHpU0V1scBSVjzb3fnjTocnruJ5iBcu > QpO5XemXDrdD4cxqM6SIwhUMLNajGD5xez0F5vNMoysW8Lyt6HdamRnrsT0T5pVb > izeshAMvXbkmKpFO/y15T714LgQBvjs8j5Vgp6ZBxVFi+EUb/O3qWcg6SYLKju3r > meQQqG0FbSXZd9veV02Rlw5dzwrjUTZQDP25pzVO1diX1v4IP5AOzrSsRhls8DKl > NMOT2VpAfiFo2ekZqDjjC2fs9t5iCrCQN3MVyHkYUv/YtOC1ZZn64UZHpx8tPF0= > =mp2a > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xquartz-dev mailing list > Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/xquartz-dev >
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