Re: XEmacs suddenly doesn't work on my Mac
> I'm running XEmacs beta (21.4 patch 22) on my up-to-date
iMac running
> El Capitan. (Mac OS X 10.11.5)
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).
Mine is 2.7.9 (xorg-server 1.17.4)
> After installing the new version, when I start XEmacs the usual
way
> (from a menu ... but I also tried it from a terminal command line), I
> get this message on STDERR:
By "terminal", do you mean an X terminal such as xterm, or do you mean
Terminal.app?
Both xterm and Terminal.app. I have to redirect STDERR to a file to
catch it. Without that (as when I try to open it from a XQuartz menu
option), it just blinks.
> X server not responding
> : "/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.zC9wJRhG9U/org.macosforge.xquartz:0.0"
Did you restart X?
Yes. Several times. Meanwhile we had a major storm and were without
electricity for eight or ten hours, so that also forced a reboot.
Actually, I've rebooted a couple of times, though I normally reboot
only once a month or less.
Perhaps you have multiple installations of X and XEmacs is linked to
the wrong libraries (which just happened to work before).
Perhaps. I could check that.
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?
Yes. All I tried was xterm, xlogo, xman, and xeyes. I don't actually
use any of them, but they all work.
Where did you get XQuartz, and in what form?
That's an interesting question, and I'm embarrassed to say I don't
know the answer offhand. It's one of those things I got a long time
ago, I thought directly from whoever makes it. ... Got it from Apple
I thought. Dang, now that I'm trying to remember where that thingy
that tells me I have software updates is and what it's called, I can't
lay my hands on it.
> I've considered biting the bullet and switching over to GNU
Emacs, but
> I really, really don't want to do that. I *like* XEmacs the way it is,
You can get an older version of XQuartz at
https://www.xquartz.org/releases/index.html.
I may resort to that.
You could also try the MacPorts or Homebrew versions (if you have
one
of those distros installed already, but I wouldn't recommend
Yeah, Maybe MacPorts, but I'd rather try other options first.
--
Lynn David Newton
Columbus, Ohio
neologisticsediting.com
lynndavidnewton.com
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