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I figured out the problem. When I wiped the laptop yet again and installed 10.13b1 on a MacOS Extended (Case-insensitive) formatted disk, X11 worked. It might be good to stay away from the new apple file system for a while. I have sent a report to the X11 developer at Apple. Logan > On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Logan Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I just wiped a laptop clean, installed 10.13b1 and then installed XQuartz 2.7.11 right after it. Opened a terminal window, typed xcalc - same error I observed before. If the Mac was a car, it was completely bone stock. > > Are you running the new APFS filesystem? > > Logan > >> On Jun 8, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Wayne Boucher <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> A chap upstairs had a spare disk so we did a 10.13b1 installation on that and xcalc (with XQuartz 2.7.11) worked and then we installed Analysis 2.4.2 and that worked (to the extent that we tried, which was to open up one spectrum). This was of course a fresh install of 10.13b1, so possibly there is some setting on your computer (maybe in some .***rc file in your home directory) which is causing the problem??? >> >> Wayne >> >>> On 8 Jun 2017, at 15:17, Logan Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> On further inspection on my Mac, the problem is far bigger than Analysis. Even “xcalc” doesn’t work. But since “xeyes” doesn’t use a font, you’ve still got that, at least :) >>> >>> NMRdraw still works for the folks who process data with NMRpipe >>> >>> Logan >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 8, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Wayne Boucher <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Good old Apple, I don’t think they ever do an upgrade when they don’t break X11 somehow. Having said that, what kind of dumb code would literally crash because of an unknown font, surely X11 could either just ignore the request or use some default font. Or at least give a sensible error message telling you what the font name is that it doesn’t like. Anyway, I’m not a font expert so don’t really know what might be causing the problem. Most of the fonts used in Analysis are “boring” ones, for example the default for most things is Helvetica, and surely that must still be around. But just grepping the code, I can see that there is at least one odd font used, called schumacher, but it seems it’s used only in a few arcane places. So if Analysis is crashing just starting up (without a project specified, so in a minimal state) then likely it’s not that, and possibly something more fundamental. >>>> >>>> (We don’t yet have a 10.13b1 machine here so not easy for me to test. In fact at work I’m still on 10.10!) >>>> >>>> Wayne >>>> >>>>> On 7 Jun 2017, at 22:09, Logan Donaldson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Analysis 2.4 cannot start up in MacOS High Sierra (10.13b1) and XQuartz 2.7.11 due to a font issue. Can a different default font be declared somewhere in the start up script(s) as a workaround ? >>>>> >>>>> Thank you >>>>> Logan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) >>>>> Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) >>>>> Serial number of failed request: 27 >>>>> Current serial number in output stream: 29 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------ >>>>> Logan Donaldson >>>>> Professor / Dep't Biology / York University >>>>> 323B Life Sciences Building >>>>> 4700 Keele Street / Toronto, ON / M3J1P3 >>>>> http://www.yorku.ca/logand