X11 mac 安装问题

X11 server – OS X issue

http://www.owsiak.org/?p=839

If you have ever got this message from “ssh -x user@host”

“An error occured while starting the X11 server: Cannot establish any listening sockets – Make sure an X server isn’t already running.”

make sure to check whether you have /tmp/.X11-unix directory. If you do so, simply remove it

shell> rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix

X11 server fails to remove this file from time to time.

*** Update ***

Step by step instructions (as one of the commenters made a request for it):

1. Open Terminal

Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal

2. Go to /tmp directory (type into terminal command specified below)

cd /tmp

3. Remove .X11-unix directory (type into terminal command specified below)

rm -rf .X11-unix

After trying everything on this page and more, I was still having trouble. I had messages in the Console about not being able to create /tmp/.ICE-unix, /tmp/.X11-unix and /tmp/.font-unix. I finally got this fixed by hacking the /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit/privileged_startx.d/10-tmpdirs script. There is a comment in there that reads, “# Our usage of mktemp fails with GNU, so prefer /usr/bin to hopefully get BSD mktemp”. I went to the terminal and ran /usr/bin/mktemp –help, and found that this computer has the GNU version, so we know it’s not going to work. What I did was to change the script where it has:

if ${MKTEMP} -d ${dir} >& /dev/null ; then

to

if mkdir ${dir} >& /dev/null; then

and now it creates the directory successfully.