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carmine · Apr 30, 2003, 12:12 AM

my X11 got f'd up...and i need to reinstall. problem is, when i got to install, it get only a little bit into te process, and just sits there. how can i reinstall x11 from the ground up?

normyzo · Apr 30, 2003, 09:48 AM

It throws bits of itself around. Try:

sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6

for starters, from the Terminal. That will wipe out most of X11 in one move. There are other pieces in /etc/X11 for example, but the majority of it is in /usr/X11R6.

Dan

carmine · Apr 30, 2003, 11:22 AM

tried that....still gets stuck on: "processing x11 user components" and ideas?

normyzo · Apr 30, 2003, 12:55 PM

Are you using Apple's X11 or XDarwin/XFree86's distribution?

You might try the other one from what you are using. Also, repairing permissions (Disk Utility, First Aid tab, click on your boot volume on the left too) might help here, if the permissions on one of the dirs was wrong. As a last resort, try loggin in as an admin user if you aren't already, or if you have root enabled (god forbid) try installing there.

Dan

carmine · Apr 30, 2003, 08:49 PM

im using apple's x11. i want to continue to use it because it has been good to me...up until now. i managed to locate a bunch of invisisble x11 files and i need to delete them. but i need to be logged in as root....is there a way to delete somehing in the /private/etc/ folder easily? thanks for the help....

normyzo · Apr 30, 2003, 11:22 PM

Gonna have to make a trip to the Terminal again. Then, you can use 'sudo'.

sudo rm -rf /etc/X11

should get rid of those for you. And don't worry about the /etc/ because /etc is really just a symlink to /private/etc, so doing rm -rf /etc/X11 is just doing an rm -rf /private/etc/X11, it just saves typing on your part

But as always, be _very_ careful when you do anything with 'sudo' and 'rm -rf' since you could end up wiping out everything on your drive.

Dan

carmine · May 2, 2003, 09:54 AM

tried that dan...didnt work; im still getting stuck on the same part....

carmine · May 7, 2003, 05:16 PM

ive tried all of the above tips, and ran cocktail on my tibook, and im STILL getting the same problem. the install stops on "processing x11 user components" and does not install any further. what do i need to do?

carmine · Jul 18, 2003, 05:10 PM

anyone? please!

OpenStep · Jul 18, 2003, 06:10 PM

You've trashed the reciepts from the previous install, right?

carmine · Jul 18, 2003, 06:20 PM

umm...where do those get installed?

OpenStep · Jul 18, 2003, 06:44 PM

They should be under /Library/Reciepts. Try trashing the X11 package reciepts running the installer... it should install a clean copy of X11 after that.

theory · Jul 18, 2003, 06:45 PM

Yeah you might need to delete the reciept
for X11. These are the ones you need
to delete. Assuming you installed the
SDK (if you didn't just delete the ones you
have of these).

/Library/Reciepts/X11Config.pkg
/Library/Reciepts/X11SDKForMacOSX.pkg
/Library/Reciepts/X11LibApple.pkg
/Library/Reciepts/X11User.pkg

theory · Jul 18, 2003, 06:47 PM

One more thing there was a vert simmilar
topic running in the unix forum and
the guy mannaged to uninstall X11 so
may be have a look there.

carmine · Jul 18, 2003, 08:13 PM

heres one for you guys...i have a folder in usr/bin/ that is called /X11R6/ when i click on this folder (with the help of cocktail to use the files) i get a beachball that i cant get out of. there is no icon next to the folder. how can i delete this folder? i think i have to do it thru the terminal....i think i got all the other x11 stuff.

superlarry · Jul 18, 2003, 09:33 PM

Originally posted by carmine:
heres one for you guys...i have a folder in usr/bin/ that is called /X11R6/ when i click on this folder (with the help of cocktail to use the files) i get a beachball that i cant get out of. there is no icon next to the folder. how can i delete this folder? i think i have to do it thru the terminal....i think i got all the other x11 stuff.

sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/X11R6

carmine · Jul 19, 2003, 10:44 AM

thanks