[R-SIG-Mac] more rgl problems

[Peter West]

Yes, I went through that process. I have no org.xquartz.* files in /Library Launch* now.

> On 18 Feb 2021, at 9:08 pm, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 17/02/2021 10:13 p.m., Peter West wrote:
>> And speaking of M1 Silicon:
>> My XQuartz version is 2.7.11.
>> Started R 4.0.4.
>> Stopped R 4.0.4
>> Started RStudio
>>> install.packages("rgl")
>> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0/rgl_0.105.13.tgz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 6446159 bytes (6.1 MB)
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 6.1 MB
>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>> 	/var/folders/jf/mkyz74311796dl4mxx_7tcx80000gn/T//RtmpflD1wL/downloaded_packages
>>> library(rgl)
>> RStudio hangs indefinitely.
>> My RStudio is at 1.4.1103.
> 
> That looks a lot like the issue Rich had last week (which I think is unrelated to the one posted today).  Have you tried the solution I posted for that?  Here's a copy:
> 
>> This worked for me to apparently fix my system:
>> Start with a newly rebooted system.
>> Uninstall XQuartz by dragging it to the trash.
>> Look in /Library/LaunchAgents/ for filenames related to xquartz.  I had two:  a five year old one called org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist, and one from around the time I installed the XQuartz beta named org.xquartz.startx.plist.  I deleted the latter.
>> Look in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ for similar files.  I deleted one with the same name, i.e. org.xquartz.startx.plist, and left an older one.
>> Reboot the system again, and install XQuartz 2.7.11.  Relogin, and things seem fine.
> 
> I suspect it would be sufficient to just delete the /Library/LaunchAgents/org.xquartz.startx.plist and /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.xquartz.startx.plist files and reboot, but I haven't tried that.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch


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