Error on launching The Gimp - "You have an existing ~/.xinitrc file"

[therockster173@…]

I have OS X.5.4, Intel MacBook. When I upgraded from OS X.4 The Gimp no longer worked. So I downloaded and installed the latest version - 2.4.5. Then it said to install XQuartz 2.2. So I installed that. When I launched The Gimp I get an error message from X11 saying

"Alert You have an existing ~/.xinitrc file. Windows displayed by X11 applications may not have titlebars, or may look different to windows displayed by native applications. Would you like to move aside the existing file and use the standard X11 environment? Yes No"

But the Yes No buttons are not clickable (nothing happens on click). The Force Quit Applications window shows X11 (not responding), and Gimp. When I Force Quit X11 it shuts down for a few seconds, then reappears. I have to logout to get X11 to fully quit.

So even though the system shows The Gimp is running, when I switch to it the only menu showing is "Gimp" with no real options (Services, Hide, Quit).

I tried uninstalling the Gimp, and reinstalling XQuartz and then The Gimp. But I don't even know how to uninstall XQuartz. I had "Turn on X11 Focus Follows Mouse.app" installed for the previous version of The Gimp.

Thanks for any help...

[jeremyhu@…]

I don't understand why you need a separate .app to toggle a single preference value (X11->Preferences has an option for focus follows mouse).

Can you please try starting X11 by itself (Not by starting gimp?)

What version of X11 do you have installed? Can you try 2.2.3?

[jeremyhu@…]

And what is the URL for the version of gimp you are installing?

[therockster173@…]

Replying to jeremyhu@freedesktop.org:

And what is the URL for the version of gimp you are installing?

I got The Gimp from here : ​http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/download.html - I used the first package MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) Intel.

In the description right under that it has a link for XQuartz 2.2 - http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/

[jeremyhu@…]

Can you please goto X11->About X11 and copy/paste the version string here... It should look something like: XQuartz 2.3.0 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple5)

Thanks.

[therockster173@…]

Replying to jeremyhu@freedesktop.org:

I don't understand why you need a separate .app to toggle a single preference value (X11->Preferences has an option for focus follows mouse).

Can you please try starting X11 by itself (Not by starting gimp?)

What version of X11 do you have installed? Can you try 2.2.3?

I wrote this while you were replying...

I have the "Turn on X11 Focus Follows Mouse.app" because I needed that under Mac OS 10.4 to run the previous version of The Gimp. When I upgraded to 10.5 The Gimp no longer worked, so I had to download the new version of The Gimp, and then XQuartz.

I actually do not know how to start X11 by itself. I do not see X11 or XQuartz anywhere. Oops - I see it now in Utilities. When I launch it nothing happens. No error, nothing. When I look at a list of running applications it is not there. When I highlight X11 it says it is Version 2.2.3. But when I Get Info on it, it says it is version 2.0, Copyright 2007 Apple inc. So that appears to be Apple's version? I don't know where XQuarz installed to. Would it be called X11 or XQuartz?

Thanks for your help...

Mike

[therockster173@…]

Replying to jeremyhu@freedesktop.org:

Can you please goto X11->About X11 and copy/paste the version string here... It should look something like: XQuartz 2.3.0 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple5)

Thanks.

X11 is in the utilities folder - and I cannot open it. See above for versions - 2.2.3 when I highlight X11.app, and version 2.0, Copyright 2007 Apple in the Get Info window.

Mike

[jeremyhu@…]

Open up Terminal.app and do 'echo $DISPLAY' What does it return?

[therockster173@…]

Replying to jeremyhu@freedesktop.org:

Open up Terminal.app and do 'echo $DISPLAY' What does it return?

Macintosh:~ mike$ echo $DISPLAY /tmp/launch-HO2fuR/:0 Macintosh:~ mike$

[jeremyhu@…]

So what happens when you type 'xterm' at the Terminal.app prompt? Can you open Console.app and copy/paste the relevant log portions corresponding to when X11.app tried to start?

[therockster173@…]

Replying to jeremyhu@freedesktop.org:

So what happens when you type 'xterm' at the Terminal.app prompt? Can you open Console.app and copy/paste the relevant log portions corresponding to when X11.app tried to start?

Nothing much seems to happen when I type in xterm. The Terminal does not return a new line to type on, it just seems to pause. The window title of the terminal changes to "Terminal - xterm - 80 x 24"

The Console does not seem to display much either - mostly this every few seconds: ...g.x.startx[458]

But then just now that error message I first reported came up, only this time I was able to click on the "No" button. Then a bunch of stuff came up in the Console, and an X11 window opened up (title bar xterm). Looking at the About X11 - Xquartz 2.2.3.

This is what Console says (note that I had opened 3 Terminal windows to try running xterm):

8/5/08 9:59:39 PM org.x.startx[458] giving up. 8/5/08 9:59:39 PM org.x.startx[458] xinit: Operation timed out (errno 60): unable to connect to X server 8/5/08 9:59:39 PM org.x.startx[458] waiting for X server to shut down 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.startx[458] xinit: Operation timed out (errno 60): Server error. 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.startx[591] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.privileged_startx[606] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.ICE-unix: File exists 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.privileged_startx[606] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.X11-unix: File exists 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.privileged_startx[606] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.font-unix: File exists 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.privileged_startx[606] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.startx[591] font_cache: Updating FC cache 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.privileged_startx[606] font_cache: Updating FC cache 8/5/08 9:59:40 PM org.x.startx[591] xauth: creating new authority file /Users/mike/.serverauth.591 8/5/08 9:59:41 PM org.x.startx[591] xauth: (stdin):2: unknown command "76369f476cd2fdee823c898f0f7946cf" 8/5/08 9:59:41 PM org.x.startx[591] xinit: Detected Xquartz startup, setting CFProcessPath=/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 8/5/08 9:59:43 PM org.x.privileged_startx[606] font_cache: Done 8/5/08 9:59:43 PM org.x.startx[591] font_cache: Done 8/5/08 9:59:53 PM org.x.startx[591] Xquartz starting: 8/5/08 9:59:53 PM org.x.startx[591] X.org Release 7.2 8/5/08 9:59:53 PM org.x.startx[591] X.Org X Server 1.3.0-apple21 8/5/08 9:59:53 PM org.x.startx[591] Build Date: 20080612 8/5/08 9:59:53 PM org.x.startx[591] Xquartz: run by launchd for fd 0 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] X11.app: Closing the display and sleeping for 2s to allow the X server to start up. 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] X11.app: Launching /usr/X11/bin/xterm: 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] argv[0] = /usr/bin/login 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] argv[1] = -fp 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] argv[2] = mike 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] argv[3] = /bin/sh 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] argv[4] = -c 8/5/08 9:59:54 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] argv[5] = /usr/X11/bin/xterm

Now let me start The Gimp just to see...

Gimp opens, but just with that one menu ("Gimp") that allows you to ... no, wait. Finally The Gimp has fully opened. Wow, that was all very slow. Let me try again to make sure... OK, it worked. I launched X11, and it opened. Then I launched The Gimp and it opened - both quickly.

Then I just tried opening The Gimp directly, without X11 first. It worked quickly also. Hmmm.

I don't know what to say. But thanks for helping me.

Mike

[therockster173@…]

I just logged out and logged back in and tried starting The Gimp. It worked without a problem. I have no idea why.

Mike

[jeremyhu@…]

Whatever is above the "8/5/08 9:59:39 PM org.x.startx[458] giving up." in the log is important. Can you please copy that here... also, put your log inside of so it is easy to read in trac.

Thanks.

[therockster173@…]

I ran a query on the Console, but for some reason it returns nothing before 10:03:23 pm yesterday. If I remember correctly though, that line that I quoted was repeated a number of times before (same text, different [number]. Here is the log from today when I started Gimp.

8/6/08 10:18:38 PM [0x0-0x22022].org.gimp.Gimp[238] / 
8/6/08 10:18:40 PM org.x.startx[253] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/6/08 10:18:40 PM org.x.privileged_startx[268] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/6/08 10:18:40 PM org.x.startx[253] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/6/08 10:18:40 PM org.x.privileged_startx[268] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/6/08 10:18:40 PM org.x.startx[253] xauth:  creating new authority file /Users/mike/.serverauth.253 
8/6/08 10:18:43 PM org.x.privileged_startx[268] font_cache: Done 
8/6/08 10:18:43 PM org.x.startx[253] font_cache: Done 
8/6/08 10:18:45 PM org.x.startx[253] xauth: (stdin):2:  unknown command "76369f476cd2fdee823c898f0f7946cf" 
8/6/08 10:18:45 PM org.x.startx[253] xinit: Detected Xquartz startup, setting CFProcessPath=/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 
8/6/08 10:18:45 PM org.x.startx[253] Xquartz starting: 
8/6/08 10:18:45 PM org.x.startx[253] X.org Release 7.2 
8/6/08 10:18:45 PM org.x.startx[253] X.Org X Server 1.3.0-apple21 
8/6/08 10:18:45 PM org.x.startx[253] Build Date: 20080612 
8/6/08 10:18:45 PM org.x.startx[253] Xquartz: run by launchd for fd 0 

I know, not very helpful to have a log for when it goes right...but I am not sure how to retrieve the log for the time you need. By the way - it is still working...

Thanks,

Mike

Replying to jeremyhu@freedesktop.org:

Whatever is above the "8/5/08 9:59:39 PM org.x.startx[458] giving up." in the log is important. Can you please copy that here... also, put your log inside of so it is easy to read in trac.

Thanks.

[therockster173@…]

Just in case this helps - here are some other logs from when I was trying to launch X11:

8/5/08 10:03:23 PM [0x0-0x3b03b].org.gimp.Gimp[668] / 
8/5/08 10:05:02 PM login[152] DEAD_PROCESS: 152 tty?? 
8/5/08 10:05:02 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.x.X11[152] Last login: Tue Aug  5 21:55:23 on ttys002 
8/5/08 10:05:14 PM login[575] DEAD_PROCESS: 575 ttys002 
8/5/08 10:05:15 PM login[564] DEAD_PROCESS: 564 ttys001 
8/5/08 10:05:15 PM login[255] DEAD_PROCESS: 255 ttys000 
8/5/08 10:05:08 PM org.x.startx[591] Quitting Xquartz... 
8/5/08 10:05:08 PM org.x.startx[591] xinit:  connection to X server lost. 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880] X11.app: main(): argc=2 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[1] = -psn_0_254014 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.startx[881] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.privileged_startx[896] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.ICE-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.privileged_startx[896] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.X11-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.privileged_startx[896] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.font-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.startx[881] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.privileged_startx[896] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.privileged_startx[896] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/5/08 10:05:27 PM org.x.startx[881] xauth:  creating new authority file /Users/mike/.serverauth.881 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] xauth: (stdin):2:  unknown command "76369f476cd2fdee823c898f0f7946cf" 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] xinit: Detected Xquartz startup, setting CFProcessPath=/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] Xquartz starting: 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] X.org Release 7.2 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] X.Org X Server 1.3.0-apple21 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] Build Date: 20080612 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] Xquartz: run by launchd for fd 0 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880] X11.app: Closing the display and sleeping for 2s to allow the X server to start up. 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880] X11.app: Launching /usr/X11/bin/xterm: 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[0] = /usr/bin/login 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[1] = -fp 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[2] = mike 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[3] = /bin/sh 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[4] = -c 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880]  argv[5] = /usr/X11/bin/xterm 
8/5/08 10:05:28 PM login[880] USER_PROCESS: 880 tty?? 
8/5/08 10:05:29 PM org.x.startx[881] font_cache: Done 
8/5/08 10:05:29 PM org.x.privileged_startx[896] font_cache: Done 
8/5/08 10:05:37 PM [0x0-0x41041].org.gimp.Gimp[951] / 
8/5/08 10:06:16 PM login[880] DEAD_PROCESS: 880 tty?? 
8/5/08 10:06:16 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880] xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "/tmp/launch-HO2fuR/:0" 
8/5/08 10:06:16 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].org.x.X11[880] Last login: Tue Aug  5 21:59:54 on tty?? 
8/5/08 10:06:16 PM org.x.startx[881] xinit:  connection to X server lost. 
8/5/08 10:06:16 PM org.x.startx[881] waiting for X server to shut down  
8/5/08 10:06:16 PM org.x.startx[881] Quitting Xquartz... 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM [0x0-0x42042].org.gimp.Gimp[970] / 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1000] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.ICE-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1000] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.X11-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1000] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.font-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1000] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1000] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] xauth:  creating new authority file /Users/mike/.serverauth.985 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] xauth: (stdin):2:  unknown command "76369f476cd2fdee823c898f0f7946cf" 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] xinit: Detected Xquartz startup, setting CFProcessPath=/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] Xquartz starting: 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] X.org Release 7.2 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] X.Org X Server 1.3.0-apple21 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] Build Date: 20080612 
8/5/08 10:06:28 PM org.x.startx[985] Xquartz: run by launchd for fd 0 
8/5/08 10:06:30 PM org.x.startx[985] font_cache: Done 
8/5/08 10:06:30 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1000] font_cache: Done 
8/5/08 10:08:24 PM org.x.startx[985] Quitting Xquartz... 
8/5/08 10:08:24 PM org.x.startx[985] xinit:  connection to X server lost. 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM loginwindow[24] DEAD_PROCESS: 0 console 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM loginwindow[24] CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM com.apple.loginwindow[24] Tue Aug  5 22:09:08 Macintosh.local loginwindow[24] <Warning>: CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM loginwindow[24] CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM com.apple.loginwindow[24] Tue Aug  5 22:09:08 Macintosh.local loginwindow[24] <Warning>: CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM com.apple.launchd[64] ([0x0-0x15015].com.apple.AppleSpell[137]) Exited: Terminated 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM com.apple.launchd[64] (com.apple.pboard[108]) Exited: Terminated 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM com.apple.launchd[64] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-Aqua[106]) Exited: Terminated 
8/5/08 10:09:08 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[1063] Login Window Application Started 
8/5/08 10:09:10 PM loginwindow[1063] Login Window Started Security Agent 
8/5/08 10:09:11 PM SecurityAgent[1071] Showing Login Window 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM SecurityAgent[1071] User info context values set 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM SecurityAgent[1071] Login Window done 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM loginwindow[1063] Login Window - Returned from Security Agent 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM loginwindow[1063] USER_PROCESS: 1063 console 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[1070]) Exited: Terminated 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[1073] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init_per_user.d/PCIESlotCheck.plist 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[1073] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init_per_user.d/RemoteUI.plist 
8/5/08 10:09:19 PM com.apple.launchd[64] (0x101030.PCIESlotCheck) Failed to check-in! 
8/5/08 10:09:20 PM com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[1074] launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.FolderActions.folders 
8/5/08 10:09:20 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[42] SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(Michael Rock's Public Folder) returned -14135 
8/5/08 10:09:20 PM kernel ATHR: unknown locale: 3a 
8/5/08 10:09:28 PM [0x0-0x53053].com.apple.systemevents[1098] com.apple.FolderActions.enabled: Already loaded 
8/5/08 10:09:31 PM com.apple.quicklook[1089] FlateDecode: decoding error. 
8/5/08 10:09:31 PM com.apple.quicklook[1089] FlateDecode: decoding error. 
8/5/08 10:09:31 PM com.apple.quicklook[1089] FlateDecode: decoding error. 
8/5/08 10:09:32 PM com.apple.quicklook[1089] FlateDecode: decoding error. 
8/5/08 10:09:32 PM com.apple.quicklook[1089] FlateDecode: decoding error. 
8/5/08 10:09:32 PM com.apple.quicklook[1089] FlateDecode: decoding error. 
8/5/08 10:09:56 PM [0x0-0x56056].org.gimp.Gimp[1104] / 
8/5/08 10:09:56 PM org.x.startx[1119] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/5/08 10:09:56 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1135] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.ICE-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:09:56 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1135] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.X11-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:09:56 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1135] mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /tmp/.font-unix: File exists 
8/5/08 10:09:56 PM org.x.startx[1119] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/5/08 10:09:56 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1135] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1135] font_cache: Updating FC cache 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] xauth:  creating new authority file /Users/mike/.serverauth.1119 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] xauth: (stdin):2:  unknown command "76369f476cd2fdee823c898f0f7946cf" 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] xinit: Detected Xquartz startup, setting CFProcessPath=/Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] Xquartz starting: 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] X.org Release 7.2 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] X.Org X Server 1.3.0-apple21 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] Build Date: 20080612 
8/5/08 10:09:57 PM org.x.startx[1119] Xquartz: run by launchd for fd 0 
8/5/08 10:09:59 PM org.x.startx[1119] font_cache: Done 
8/5/08 10:09:59 PM org.x.privileged_startx[1135] font_cache: Done 
8/5/08 10:10:09 PM [0x0-0x56056].org.gimp.Gimp[1104] The application 'gimp-2.4' lost its connection to the display /tmp/launch-YjohFR/:0; 
8/5/08 10:10:09 PM [0x0-0x56056].org.gimp.Gimp[1104] most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed 
8/5/08 10:10:09 PM [0x0-0x56056].org.gimp.Gimp[1104] the application. 
8/5/08 10:10:09 PM org.x.startx[1119] xinit:  connection to X server lost. 
8/5/08 10:10:09 PM org.x.startx[1119] waiting for X server to shut down  
8/5/08 10:10:09 PM [0x0-0x56056].org.gimp.Gimp[1104] (script-fu:1187): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error 
8/5/08 10:10:09 PM org.x.startx[1119] Quitting Xquartz... 
8/5/08 10:12:18 PM /usr/sbin/ocspd[1193] starting 
8/5/08 10:27:58 PM loginwindow[1063] DEAD_PROCESS: 0 console 
8/5/08 10:27:58 PM shutdown[1204] halt by mike:  
8/5/08 10:27:58 PM shutdown[1204] SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1217996878 580465 
8/5/08 10:27:58 PM mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-171.4 (Apr 20 2008 11:59:52)[23] stopping 
8/5/08 10:27:58 PM com.apple.loginwindow[1063] Shutdown NOW! 
8/5/08 10:27:58 PM com.apple.loginwindow[1063] System shutdown time has arrived 
8/5/08 10:27:58 PM Parallels[1207] Shutdown script started. 
8/5/08 10:27:59 PM Parallels[1213] Unloading Parallels Network module ... 
8/5/08 10:27:59 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[17] kextunload: unload kext /System/Library/Extensions/Pvsnet.kext succeeded 
8/5/08 10:27:59 PM Parallels[1215] Unloading Parallels Monitor module ... 
8/5/08 10:28:01 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[17] kextunload: unload kext /System/Library/Extensions/vmmain.kext succeeded 
8/5/08 10:28:01 PM kernel [Parallels] Parallels VM observer thread stopped 
8/5/08 10:28:01 PM Parallels[1217] Unloading Parallels Hypervisor module ... 
8/5/08 10:28:01 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[17] kextunload: unload kext /System/Library/Extensions/hypervisor.kext succeeded 
8/5/08 10:28:01 PM kernel [Parallels] Parallels Workstation Hypervisor exited. 

Replying to jeremyhu@freedesktop.org:

Whatever is above the "8/5/08 9:59:39 PM org.x.startx[458] giving up." in the log is important. Can you please copy that here... also, put your log inside of so it is easy to read in trac.

Thanks.

[jeremyhu@…]

So this is really the critical line that catches my eye:

8/5/08 10:05:28 PM org.x.startx[881] xauth: (stdin):2:  unknown command "76369f476cd2fdee823c898f0f7946cf" 

This is coming from one of these places in /usr/X11/bin/startx:

xauth -q << EOF 
add $displayname . $mcookie
EOF

or

xauth -q -f "$xserverauthfile" << EOF
add :$dummy . $mcookie
EOF

Can you add some debugging echos to /usr/X11/bin/startx to figure out why you're giving bad data to xauth (and as a workaround for now, you can just disable xauth in X11->Preferences->Security

[jeremyhu@…]

Ping. Closing due to lack of response... please reopen if you can respond to the questions above.

Thanks.