Problem with launching x11 applications

[ksamanta]

Let me try to explain my problem as best as I can. Please bear with me and let me know what other information I need to provide to troubleshoot this.

Machine description:
Macbook 13.3", Mac OSX 10.5.8, Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0

Problem description:
It all started when darwinport failed to install kdegames4 (and my efforts thereafter to get that installed!). I can no longer launch any x11 applications --e.g., xterm, xpdf, xdvi, inkscape, molden, gnuplot with x11. When I'd start any of these the X icon would popping in the dock and go away just to come back a few seconds later --- this would keep going on and on --- even if I tried to kill them by finding them in the terminal. Whenever I moused-over the X icon on the dock it would just freeze everything --- and I had to kill the dock to get my computer responding again (luckily I could use spotlight and terminal to get this done).

Disgusted, I installed the Xquartz from
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki
but that did not help me much. The same problem comes back while launching (by directly clicking or from terminal) any x11 application, only this time it does not cause everything to freeze up when I mouse over the bouncing X icon.

Funny that I can access x11 applications from another account on the same machine. I didn't find any reasonable differences between the settings in the two accounts.


Now it's time for some output:

18:05:57 [438]$ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-Cy3Z7G/:0

and

18:06:03 [435]$ startx
font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
font_cache: Updating FC cache

Xquartz: X11.app = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Users/kousik/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
X11.app: main(): argc=2
        argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
        argv[1] = --listenonly
Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=2
        argv[0] = /usr/X11/bin/X
        argv[1] = :3
Xquartz starting:
X.Org X Server 1.5.3-apple14
Build Date: 20090812
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device keyboard

waiting for X server to shut down font_cache: Done

I followed the instructions on this page
http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/X11/index.html
but that too did not help me.


Please please plase............. help me solve this problem!