I recently upgraded to XQuartz 2.7.8. and later on to OSX El Capitan. Now I have a system that is somewhat sluggish and according to 'top' the 'kexts' process constantly takes up 20% of the CPU time. When I boot the machine with Shift key pressed, the problem is solved and 'kexts' takes up no CPU time at all. However, XQuartz does not launch (error: cannot establish listening socket.) This is the reason why I believe XQuartz 2.7.8. could be the culprit and the reason why I am submitting this report. Thank you, Burkhard Militzer
The 'error: cannot establish listening socket.' error is likely because you've eitehr disabled the org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx LaunchDaemon, deleted /tmp, or messed with the permissions on /tmp. XQuartz does not have anything to do with your kexts.
You should take a sysdiagnose when encountering the problem and look at the spindump to see what this kexts process is doing.
Created attachment 119351 [details] attachment-21284-0.html Thank you. The problem was eventually resolved by disabling the system integrity protection following: http://www.imore.com/el-capitan-system-integrity-protection-helps-keep-malwa re-away Best wishes, Burkhard On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:45 PM, <bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org> wrote: > *Comment # 2 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92726#c2> on > bug 92726 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92726> from Jeremy > Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@freedesktop.org> * > > You should take a sysdiagnose when encountering the problem and look at the > spindump to see what this kexts process is doing. > > ------------------------------ > You are receiving this mail because: > > - You reported the bug. > >
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