[OS X TeX] sudo ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I recently updated my aged iMac to Yosemite (and did the sudo mv trick mentioned on the list), but soon discovered that when compiling, LaTeX still issued the following warning message:
> 
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib
> 
> I googled the warning message, and was lead to the following website
> 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208001/cant-compile-image-after-upgrading-to-os-x-yosemite
> 
> wherein a solution was suggested 
> 
> sudo ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11
> 
> I followed the instruction, and indeed the .tex document could be compiled. Unfortunately, when the computer was rebooted, the entire system became non-responsive that nothing could be done: I could still move the mouse cursor (which was a spinning beach ball of death) but nothing was clickable at all. Luckily, the activity monitor window was open, and I saw that every 5 minutes or so, the user CPU usage surged (and at that instant, the spinning beach ball returned to its arrow form, if you were prepared with your mouse at hand, you could click on some thing), and then the system became totally non-responsive again.
> 
> I tried essentially everything I could think of (including replaced with new ram sticks) but with no luck. Finally, I reinstalled the OS, and everything went back to before the fiasco.
> 
> JT

Howdy,

I found that the easiest thing was to re-install XQuartz which re-creates all the proper links.

Having the complete system lock up is really scary!

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)