Having a space in the volume name containing your user directory causes xinit to fail

[ubermale@…]

Jun 25 09:58:38 octo org.x.startx[22495]: xinit: Detected Xquartz startup, setting CFProcessPath=/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 Jun 25 09:58:38 octo org.x.startx[22495]: Unrecognized option: Data/dogen/.serverauth.22495 Jun 25 09:58:38 octo org.x.startx[22495]: Fatal server error: Jun 25 09:58:38 octo org.x.startx[22495]: Unrecognized option: Data/dogen/.serverauth.22495 Jun 25 09:58:38 octo org.x.startx[22495]: AbortDDX Jun 25 09:58:38 octo org.x.startx[22495]: Quitting Xquartz…

After changing “User Data” to “User_Data”, it was fixed.

[ubermale@…]

This was working with the default X11 install of Mac OS 10.5.3; the problem arise with updating to XQuartz 2.2.3.

[jeremyhu@…]

Please try the attached replacement for /usr/X11/bin/startx and let me know if it works for you

[ubermale@…]

Hello,

That one didn't work either but I just noticed it does give line numbers with errors:

old===== Jun 25 09:43:17 octo org.x.startx[18390]: /usr/X11/bin/startx: line 119: [: /Volumes/User: binary operator expected Jun 25 09:43:17 octo org.x.startx[18390]: /usr/X11/bin/startx: line 132: [: /Volumes/User: binary operator expected

new===== Jun 25 19:09:39 octo org.x.startx[1557]: /usr/X11/bin/startx: line 167: [: /Volumes/User: binary operator expected Jun 25 19:09:39 octo org.x.startx[1557]: /usr/X11/bin/startx: line 190: [: /Volumes/User: binary operator expected

[jeremyhu@…]

Ok, I updated it to fix that additional problem. Can you give this update a go and let me know how it works for you?

Thanks.

[jeremyhu@…]

Actually... that's not going to work either... I don't think there's going to be a way to really fix this given the limitations of bash... hmm...

[ubermale@…]

Hehe, ok just let me know when you're ready for me to try it out. Thanks.

[jeremyhu@…]

Ok. try this... but I don't know if this is compatible with other shells, but it should work ok with bash on OSX.

[jeremyhu@…]

And this one should work with all shells... can you give it a try?

[jeremyhu@…]

ok... i take it back... still not working... sigh... stupid corner cases...

[jeremyhu@…]

/usr/X11/bin/startx

[jeremyhu@…]

ok... try this please...

really, this time.

[ubermale@…]

Success! You da man..what else can I say? Looking forward to OpenGL support next :D

[jeremyhu@…]

eh, thanks.... but you may be waiting a while =(