XQuartz fails to Launch or Reinstall

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

> On Oct 10, 2016, at 23:50, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 02:12:18AM +0000, Wendy M Calvin wrote:
>> Thanks for your response.
>> 
>> I get
>> 
>> touch: /tmp/.tX0-lock: Operation not permitted
>> 
>> 
>> I get the same error “Operation not permitted” if I try to mv the /tmp directory to something like tmp_old in order to recreate the link.
> 
> According to
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/482205?start=0&tstart=0 /tmp is now
> 755, root:wheel what means only root can write there.
> You could add yourself to wheel and make it 775, but I'm not sure why
> apple chose those (idiotic) permissions and it's likely not a persistent
> change (reg. the /tmp permissions, group assignments should be fine)

Apple didn't do that.  The user did.  We ship with /tmp as a symlink to /private/tmp with correct permissions.
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