Xquartz x11_server server crash whithin root account

[jcfiguero@…]

Hi, Since Xquartz version 2.7.x .. until 2.7.2 beta4, the application crashes when running within the root account. Problem solved by downgrading to version 2.6.3. but it will be nice to have the newest version running within the root account.

for example see the lines or atached crash files:

Apr  1 19:19:56 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[599]: Xquartz: start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died
Apr  1 19:19:56 livshef com.apple.launchd.peruser.0[481] ([0x0-0x32032].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[513]): Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap
Apr  1 19:19:56 livshef ReportCrash[614]: Saved crash report for X11.bin[513] version 2.7.2_beta4 (2.7.23) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/X11.bin_2012-04-01-191956_livshef.crash
Apr  1 19:19:56 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[519]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: giving up
Apr  1 19:19:56 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[519]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
Apr  1 19:19:56 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[519]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: server error
Apr  1 19:19:56 livshef com.apple.launchd.peruser.0[481] (org.macosforge.xquartz.startx): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds
Apr  1 19:20:04 livshef defaults[723]: \nThe domain/default pair of (org.macosforge.xquartz.X11, dpi) does not exist
Apr  1 19:20:04 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[682]: xauth:  file /.serverauth.683 does not exist
Apr  1 19:20:04 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[682]: 
Apr  1 19:20:04 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[762]: Xquartz: Unable to locate waiting server: org.macosforge.xquartz.X11
Apr  1 19:20:04 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[766]: Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
Apr  1 19:20:05 livshef org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[762]: Xquartz: start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died

.. after 8 seconds .. similar stuff.

Cheers.

[jcfiguero@…]

a crash report

[jeremyhu@…]

Based on your crash log, this assertion is failing:

        char *home = getenv("HOME");
        assert(home);

You should not be running this as root. Why are you trying to run as root? Please followup on the users mailing list.