Monitor can no longer start

Deadline
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This is an odd one. I had Monitor running yesterday on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.4. I quit Monitor and fired it up today, and it fails to start. I see this in the Console.app window :

03/11/2010 06:53:04 org.x.startx[31987] font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
03/11/2010 06:53:04 org.x.startx[31987] font_cache: Updating FC cache
03/11/2010 06:53:04 org.x.privileged_startx[32000] font_cache: Scanning system font directories to generate X11 font caches
03/11/2010 06:53:04 defaults[32020]
The domain/default pair of (org.x.X11, dpi) does not exist
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] xauth: creating new authority file /Users/phil/.serverauth.31987
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] Xquartz: Unable to locate waiting server: org.x.X11
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] Xquartz: X11.app = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] X11.app: main(): argc=2
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[1] = --listenonly
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] X11.app: Listening on socket for fd handoff: (4) /var/tmp/tmp.0.NX6Aar
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] X11.app: Thread created for handoff. Returning success to tell caller to connect and push the fd.
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] Xquartz: Handoff connection established (try 1 of 5) on fd 7, “/var/tmp/tmp.0.NX6Aar”. Sending message.
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] Xquartz: Message sent. Closing handoff fd.
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=6
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[0] = /usr/X11/bin/X
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[1] = :0
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[2] = -nolisten
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[3] = tcp
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[4] = -auth
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] argv[5] = /Users/phil/.serverauth.31987
03/11/2010 06:53:05 org.x.startx[31987] X11.app: Received new $DISPLAY fd: 8 … sleeping to allow xinitrc to catchup.
03/11/2010 06:53:06 org.x.startx[31987] Xquartz starting:
03/11/2010 06:53:06 org.x.startx[31987] X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple53
03/11/2010 06:53:06 org.x.startx[31987] Build Date: 20100211
03/11/2010 06:53:06 org.x.privileged_startx[32000] font_cache: Updating FC cache
03/11/2010 06:53:07 org.x.startx[31987] (EE) XKB: Couldn’t open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
03/11/2010 06:53:07 org.x.startx[31987] (EE) XKB: Couldn’t open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
03/11/2010 06:53:07 org.x.startx[31987] font_cache: Done
03/11/2010 06:53:08 org.x.startx[31987] X11.app Handing off fd to server thread via DarwinListenOnOpenFD(8)
03/11/2010 06:53:08 org.x.startx[31987] DarwinListenOnOpenFD: 8
03/11/2010 06:53:08 org.x.startx[31987] Calling ListenOnOpenFD() for new fd: 8
03/11/2010 06:53:09 org.x.privileged_startx[32000] font_cache: Done
03/11/2010 06:53:10 Firewall[76] mono is listening from 127.0.0.1:52842 proto=6
03/11/2010 06:53:10 [0x0-0x11b31b2].net.deadline.DeadlineMonitor[31960] Gtk not found (missing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?), using built-in colorscheme
03/11/2010 06:53:10 [0x0-0x11b31b2].net.deadline.DeadlineMonitor[31960] System.Net.Sockets.SocketOptionName 0x1b is not supported at IPv6 level

The Monitor icon vanishes. I’ve no idea why. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed on this system since yesterday.

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The problem seems to be related to X11. Is the version of X11 on this machine the version that is shipped with OSX, or was it downloaded from XQuartz? The version of X11 that is shipped with the OSX install disc should suffice, so there is no need to install from XQuartz.

Also, are you able to run X11 by itself (/Applications/Utilities/X11)?

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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As mentioned, Monitor had been working fine. X11 starts up in the dock and is the standard OS X X11.app bundle. I never installed an alternative X server on Snow Leopard. The Monitor dock icon vanishes shortly after the X11 icon appears (and that icon stays in the dock until I kill it)

I’ll reboot the machine once it finishes chewing on the current frame, just in case it’s a quirk - just wondered if it had been seen before. Hopefully a reboot will clear it up.

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Yeah, hopefully a reboot fixes this. We haven’t seen this problem before.

I had only mentioned xquartz because when I googled some of the X11 error messages, that’s what all the threads I when through kept mentioning. :slight_smile:

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I was suspicious about this line, to be honest :

03/11/2010 06:53:10 [0x0-0x11b31b2].net.deadline.DeadlineMonitor[31960] Gtk not found (missing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?), using built-in colorscheme

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That’s a normal warning printed out by Mono. It should have no effect on any of the Deadline applications.