Unable to open X server

[Galileu]

Hi, I am on Yosemite.

When I type the command Display on the terminal I get this error:

display: unable to open X server `/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.1UcRebddrZ/org.macosforge.xquartz:0' @ error/display.c/DisplayImageCommand/426.

Any help welcome
José

 

[McBie]

Welcome to the forums.

Are you sure you are on plain Yosemite or on Yosemite with a few extras ?
I simply googled the message provided and there are some references to it.

Cheers ... McBie

 

[Galileu]

Thinking about it it is possible that this was part of ImageMagick installation by MacPorts. The installation was done with: sudo port install ImageMagick
After that I had the oportunity to test ImageMagick and Display was one of the tests, which worked at the time. Then I had to "import requests" and it gave an error:

XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server "/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.1UcRebddrZ/org.macosforge.xquartz:0"
after 24 requests (23 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Following some advice I found on the net I removed file org.macosforge.xquartz:0 and I believe this is what killed Display

 

[Galileu]

One addition:

The variable $DISPLAY shows this:

Jose-B-Almeida:~ josebalmeida$ echo $DISPLAY
/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.1UcRebddrZ/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
Jose-B-Almeida:~ josebalmeida$

 

[Galileu]

Hi

Display is working again after XQuartz re-installation. No I am back where I started, with the import question, but that would fall into another thread.