XEmacs suddenly doesn't work on my Mac

Lynn David Newton writes: I'm running XEmacs 21.5.recent, same version of Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro. XQuartz is XQuartz 1.18.99.1 (xorg-server 1.18.99.1) (you can copy-paste that from the X11 menu, About). I'm running the MacPorts version. I may try installing the current versions of XQuartz from xquartz.org next week, but I too have work to do.... By "terminal", do you mean an X terminal such as xterm, or do you mean Terminal.app? Neither Google nor the XQuartz tracker are helpful. :-( Just guessing, but ... Did you restart X? There could be a library mismatch such that the new library is looking for X in all the wrong places. You could also try rebooting (I know, it feels like Windows "a good reboot solves most problems", but you're desperate, right?) Perhaps you have multiple installations of X and XEmacs is linked to the wrong libraries (which just happened to work before). There is a really stupid bug in Mac OS X such that named socket names have a really short length limit. Yes, it's so short that it's conceivable that the above is too long. This bug bit TRAMP a while back. TRAMP is written in LISP so I hacked around it, then Michael A fixed it upstream pretty quick. X is another matter.... Are other X apps working? Where did you get XQuartz, and in what form? You can get an older version of XQuartz at https://www.xquartz.org/releases/index.html. You could also try the MacPorts or Homebrew versions (if you have one of those distros installed already, but I wouldn't recommend Good luck! Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta