X11 issues on Mac OS X solved
Friday, February 8th, 2008
I cherish the day I got my MacBook Pro. It came preinstalled with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). Since Leopard X11 is part of the default install so you can run X11 programs out of the box. Surely I got exited and installed Macports (the BSD collection of tools for Mac OS X). It has loads of tools I need on a daily basis. One of the things I need is Wireshark (the artist formerly known as “Ethereal”). Installation was a breeze. Just sit back and watch how ports compiles the stuff that is needed to get Wireshark up and running.
After a while wireshark was good to go so I gave it a spin. The all familiar windows popped up and I started gathering some information from the network. After a while Wireshark crashed with an X11 error message. Same story with my favorite image editing tool “The Gimp”. Same X11 error message: