Repairing permissions takes a long time!!

Ever since upgrading to Leopard I've found that repairing permissions takes a long time (30 to 60 minutes), and repairing the disc takes even longer. I've recently run the Apple Hardware Test - everything passed, then ran a 3rd party memory test ("Memtest"), and everything was "OK", and I used "Leopard Cache Cleaner" to clear all the caches, but still it took 18 minutes to verify permissions, then 22 minutes to repair them, which seems a long time to me. The blue progress bar goes immediately to about 10% saying estimated time is 1 minute, stays there for about 15 minutes then progress actually starts. Can anyone advise?
Tim

Yes, RP has been problematic since 10.5.0. We're all a bit frustrated...
You can speed the process by not choosing to "Verify" permissions. Just run the "Repair" permissions, no need to verify also, you're just doing extra work.
-mj
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Why Repairing Permissions takes so Long

Is it normal for the Leopard Disk Utility to take a really long time to Verify and/or Repair Permissions?
Repairing Permissions under Tiger was not bid deal bug in Leopard it really seems slow. There is now a timer but it it not even close. The one minutes can turn into 5 to 15 minutes. I wonder if the delay means there is something wrong with my installation?
arkay

There are more permissions for Leopard to check than there were in Tiger. I'm not sure that is the complete explanation but repair permissions does take a long, long time in Leopard and the progress indicator being stuck on 1 minute for so long adds insult to injury. You can post a complaint about it to Aople Feedback.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
I've not found that verifying permissions is noticeably faster than repairing them so I never use the verify function.

Problem description: My macbook pro since this afteon has been slower, every application I open, it takes a long time to open, and shows the spinning beach ball for a while before it opens or performs some task, or responds to a click- EtreCheck

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My macbook pro since this afternoon has been slower, every application I open, it takes a long time to open, and shows the spinning beach ball for a while before it opens or performs some task, or responds to a click…
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Open Activity Monitor and kill this process - rapportd.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Alternatively, see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Choose the version you have installed now:
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
     Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
                 if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Macbook takes a long time to recognize power soure

Hello,
I have a MacBook running 10.6.8 that is exhibiting some strange behavior in regards to the power source. When I plug the power cord in it takes a while, sometimes as long as 3 minutes to recognize that it the computer is no longer running on battery anymore. Similarly it takes a long time to realize it's no longer running via a power cord when I remove the power cord from the machine. In all cases it eventually catches up and makes the proper switch, but I'm a bit concerned as this behavior is relatively new. I've tried swapping out power cords and it doesn't make any difference. I only have one user on the machine but could create a test account and try to see if this behavior is account specific if someone things that is worthwhile. Another thing to note, I believe the battery level indicator is correct, because often when it catches up after I've inserted the power cord the percent full jumps a couple of digits, as if it'd been charging for a while. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas that I could try to remedy this? So far, I've really only tried repairing disk permissions as I've never seen an issue like this before. Thanks.
-NifflerX

How long is "forever"?
Create a new user account. Log out of the original and into the new one, then put the machine to sleep. Any changes?
~Lyssa

Firefox takes very long time to open and often crashes for some websites

i have used firefox 3.6 with windows xp, vista and now windows 7. there is same problem i am facing at all after well usage of week. firefox takes very long time to open approx. 1 minute at first click. after refreshing computer when i click again, it becomes ready to use but meanwhile you re working firefox opens in another window perhaps for the first click. what is this please? i have reinstalled firefox but it is not fixing problem
== Troubleshooting information ==
how can firefox be ready for use at first click?

Open Activity Monitor and kill this process - rapportd.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Alternatively, see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Choose the version you have installed now:
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
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Sometimes an e-mail will take a long time to open

Not all my e-mails open immediately. Some of them take a long time and I have to keep going back to them or wait until the next day.
All my e-mails don't do this. Just some.

I use ccleaner on a regular basis.
That may be one of your problems - apps that claim to 'clean your Mac' usually do more harm than good.
If I were you, I would try a 'fresh' installation of OS X. Simply boot into your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys whilst booting), use Disk Utility to verify and repair Permissions and the use it to verify your hard drive and then install OS X anew. If you don't erase your hard drive, none of your data will be deleted (although it's always best to have a backup, of course).
If the fresh install doesn't 'fix' things, I would just start all over again - erasing your drive and reinstalling everything.
And stay away frorm CCCleaner, etc.
Clinton

Time Machine/Time Capsule backups successful, but take a long time

I purchased a 512GB Time Capsule about a year ago. Since I got it, backups have been successful, but very slow. An average backup takes about 40-50 minutes, usually for less than 20 MB transferred.
Here are a couple summaries of recent backups (see end of post for full logs):
BACKUP 1:
11 minutes to detect if pre-backup thinning was necessary
18 minutes to copy 281 MB
5 minutes to copy 5.4 MB
4 minutes to start post-backup thinning
2 minutes to delete 1 expired backup
There were no error messages.
BACKUP 2:
4 minutes to detect if pre-backup thinning was necessary
12 minutes to copy 15 MB
5 minutes to detect if pre-backup thinning was necessary
15 minutes to copy 3.8 MB
1 minutes to start post-backup thinning
2 minutes to delete 1 expired backup
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Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong to cause my regular backups to take so long?
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14/09/09 2:09:47 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Starting standard backup
14/09/09 2:09:55 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Peter%[email protected]/turban
14/09/09 2:09:55 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/turban
14/09/09 2:10:02 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Disk image /Volumes/turban/buttercup_001ec2146608.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup
14/09/09 2:10:02 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb
14/09/09 2:21:15 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] No pre-backup thinning needed: 860.3 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
14/09/09 2:39:05 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Copied 12159 files (281.3 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 2:39:08 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] No pre-backup thinning needed: 529.5 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
14/09/09 2:44:18 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Copied 11775 files (5.4 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 2:48:43 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Starting post-backup thinning
14/09/09 2:50:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb/buttercup/2009-09-13-132947: 280.02 GB now available
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14/09/09 2:50:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Backup completed successfully.
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14/09/09 9:09:54 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Peter%[email protected]/turban
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14/09/09 9:10:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Disk image /Volumes/turban/buttercup_001ec2146608.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup
14/09/09 9:10:10 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb
14/09/09 9:14:06 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] No pre-backup thinning needed: 542.2 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
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14/09/09 9:23:27 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:24:30 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:24:30 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:26:00 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Copied 1223 files (15.3 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 9:31:35 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] No pre-backup thinning needed: 527.5 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:20 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Copied 11336 files (3.8 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 9:47:06 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Starting post-backup thinning
14/09/09 9:49:14 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb/buttercup/2009-09-13-082428: 280.02 GB now available
14/09/09 9:49:14 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
14/09/09 9:49:15 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Backup completed successfully.
14/09/09 9:49:19 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
14/09/09 9:49:25 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Ejected Time Machine network volume.

peterjm wrote:
I checked all of the steps in #D2 of the Troubleshooting Guide.
One other thing thing you might try, is a +*Verify Disk+* (not permissions) on your internal HD. That will not take anything like 40 hours! If it reports problems, you'll have to boot from your Install disc and use it's copy of DU to repair it. Post back if you need to do this but aren't sure how.
I think it's very fishy that Repair Disk took 40 hours -- it seems like any operation that touches the hard drive on the Time Capsule takes a long time. Maybe the hard drive is having problems? What sort of problems could a drive have that would make everything VERY slow, but still successful?
Try connecting via an Ethernet cable; see what effect that has. Everything should be faster, of course, but not wildly. Just as an example, I'm doing backups to a USB hard drive via my Airport Extreme, about 15 feet from my iMac. When I first started that way, I did a full backup via Ethernet (about 21 gb/hour), then erased it and ran again wirelessly (about 12 gb/hour).
Even 5 feet apart, you may have some sort of interference or other communications problem; if Ethernet is many times faster, then you may need to have your TC and/or wireless card examined.

Firefox 5 seems to take a long time to download ...is that right...I mean...more than 5 min...I finally stopped the download...

i got the download bar then it never seemed to go away..how long should it take to download firefox 5....it's never taken that long..I had to stop it after 5 minutes or so

peterjm wrote:
I checked all of the steps in #D2 of the Troubleshooting Guide.
One other thing thing you might try, is a +*Verify Disk+* (not permissions) on your internal HD. That will not take anything like 40 hours! If it reports problems, you'll have to boot from your Install disc and use it's copy of DU to repair it. Post back if you need to do this but aren't sure how.
I think it's very fishy that Repair Disk took 40 hours -- it seems like any operation that touches the hard drive on the Time Capsule takes a long time. Maybe the hard drive is having problems? What sort of problems could a drive have that would make everything VERY slow, but still successful?
Try connecting via an Ethernet cable; see what effect that has. Everything should be faster, of course, but not wildly. Just as an example, I'm doing backups to a USB hard drive via my Airport Extreme, about 15 feet from my iMac. When I first started that way, I did a full backup via Ethernet (about 21 gb/hour), then erased it and ran again wirelessly (about 12 gb/hour).
Even 5 feet apart, you may have some sort of interference or other communications problem; if Ethernet is many times faster, then you may need to have your TC and/or wireless card examined.

Previewing files takes a long time when trying to attach them

Whenever i try to preview files while trying to attach them in mail..once the file is selected it takes a long time to preview and hence be attached. First it was a problem with finder taking ages to preview...i sorted this out..but not the mail thing. Even after running disk utility, repairing permissions, cache cleaning and removing the com.apple.mail.plist file ..It didn't work. I started seeing the same problem in adium when I was trying to select a picture from a folder to change my display pic. Fortunately it hasn't happened in word or excel.
Can anyone help with problem??
Power Book G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2 GB RAM, 128 MB VRAM

It's loading the code insight. Since you have such a large number of objects you may want to turn this off.
sqldeveloper -J-Dsdev.insight=false
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G5 Updates Take A Long Time

I just got my Dual 2.3 G5 yesterday. Man is it fast!!! However, when it downloaded all the software updates, it took a long time. Also, when I was downloading the Microsoft Office updates, it took forever. I have a high-speed cable internet connection that's conencted with an ethernet cable. Is it normal for updates to take a long time?

Dear Tim,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Usually this should not happen with a new unit however this may be caused due to some reasons because of the network or some damaged file.
You can try few steps and see if this makes a difference :
1.Delete the Home user Caches. Location Home user > Library > Caches
2.Run disk utility and verify and repair permissions.
3.Check if you have additional settings on you network like DNS or so. (contact your ISP)
4.Drag the file com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist to the desktop. Location HDD > Library > Preferences > com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
5.Restart the unit holding "shift key to force boot the unit to Safe boot once and then restart normal.
6.If the issue still persist make a new Admin user from System Preferences > Accounts and check on the new user.
Hope this helps.
Good Day!
Ravi Dimri.

Aperture 3.1 takes incredibly long time to start

Since after the upgrade from 3.0.x to 3.1 Aperture takes a long time to start up. I click on the Aperture icon in the dock, the icon bounces for almost a minute, then it stays still for more than a minute, doing nothing and without the "light bulb" indicator that the app is running. It's just sitting there in the dock. After a total of 2-5 minutes, the Aperture window opens and I can start working.
I tried many things suggested in the forums to speed up Aperture:
I turned off Faces
I turned off sharing of previews with iLife and iWork
I turned off using embedded JPEGs from camera
I deleted all Aperture preferences as I thought there might be a corruption after upgrade
I removed all plugins from Aperture plugin folder to make sure nothing is interfering
I used the Aperture rebuild and repair options on the library
I created a new Aperture library and imported my photos from the old library into a fresh one
I downloaded and installed the Aperture 3.1 update again to make sure nothing got corrupted during update installation
Nothing helped. Aperture takes 2-3 minutes to fully start.
Plugins in use: NIK Software's Viveza 2 and HDR Efex Pro, Tiltshift for Aperture. That's it. And, as I said, it doesn't help if I take them out of Aperture's plugin folder so they don't get loaded. Problem still remains.
My library isn't that big: 29GB in 8230 items. Is 2-3 minutes a normal startup time?
Has anyone experienced a similar problem after upgrading? As I literally exchanged everything underneath Aperture (deleted preference files, created new library and imported photos from old lib) I don't know what else I could try. Totally uninstall Aperture and re-install it again?
Any suggestions what this could be?
On a sidenote, interestingly Logic Pro takes about the same amount of time to start. The icon bounces in the dock for almost 1 minute, then I hear the harddisk working for another minute until the splash screen finally appears. Logic Pro is loaded after 2 minutes and 20 seconds. I could boot my whole Mac 4x in that timeframe.

To everybody having this problem. I found out what the culprit was. As a documentation here is what it was.
I read some posts here on the forums that mounted USB sticks or flash cards would make Aperture super slow while importing photos. I have Boot Camp installed and have a Windows 7 partition on the same drive as my MacOS. So, out of curiosity, I forced it to unmount as the partition automatically gets mounted by the OS.
Voilà! That seems to have been the culprit! Now both Aperture and Logic (which also had to think 2 minutes before it decided to start) display the splash screen in seconds and start like they are supposed to.
Make sure you have no drives mounted when starting these applications. This helped bringing down the starting time from 2 minutes and 20 seconds to just a few seconds. Of course, if you have your library on another drive you have to have it mounted. Maybe it only takes so long when you have Boot Camp and an NTFS partition. But if you experience lags starting these apps, try unmounting what you don't need.

Snow Leopard 10.6.2 takes a long time to run 'X11.app' (with system log)

Hello everyone, English is not my mother tongue so may not be exactly correct, sorry about that.
Background:
I have a MacBook White (13-inch, Mid 2009) that isn't unibody, and was running Leopard 10.5.
I did a clean installation and now Snow Leopard 10.6.2, with iLife, iWork, and many many apps.
I am the only one who will use the Mac and my user account is as the 'admin'.
I previously had a problem concerning X11 too:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2343732
*What I've done:*
(1) rename my HD to 'Michaels_Home' under 'Get Info' from Finder (I can't rename in Disk Utility though)
(2) press return (enter)
(3) change my home folder path to the '/Volumes/Michaels_Home/Users/Michael' (http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=Tips/relocate3/relocate3.ht ml)
(4) restart
(5) log in and open X11
(6) problem solved!!
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*BUT NOW* I have a problem after:
(1) log in as the root user, and use command +ditto -V xyz xyz+ to copy my home folder from '/Volumes/Michaels_Home/Users/Michael' to '/Users>Michael'
(2) change my home folder path to the '/Users/Michael' (http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=Tips/relocate3/relocate3.ht ml)
(3) use the Mac OS X Snow Leopard USD$29 disc to boot my Mac up
(4) delete the 'Michaels_Home' partition (I had 3 partitions: (1) Macintosh HD (2) Michaels_Home (3) Windows XP Professional)
(5) resize the 'Macintosh HD' partition
(6) boot from Macintosh HD
(7) find that there's a problem about X11
_The problem:_
it takes a *long time* for X11 to start.
When I try to open the 'X11.app', the X11 icon begins jumping on the Dock, but nothing happens.
Jumping and jumping... finally, it doesn't jump any more, with just the X11 icon on the dock.
What's more, there is no white dot under the icon, which means the app isn't running at the moment.
I right-clicked the icon, it shows me 'application not responding'.
So, I open the *Activity Monitor*, and I can see there are 3 apps related to X11 are running:
(1) X11
(2) X11.bin
(3) xauth
*At the moment now, if you would wait for about 1.5 min., X11 will open.*
Please see below for the system log (from 'FREEZING' to 'WORKING')
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Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: main(): argc=2
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[1] = -psn0139298
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: font_cache: Updating FC cache
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 org.x.privileged_startx[344]: font_cache: Scanning system font directories to generate X11 font caches
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 defaults[370]: \nThe domain/default pair of (org.x.X11, dpi) does not exist
Mar 1 00:42:12 n219073058253 org.x.privileged_startx[344]: font_cache: Updating FC cache
Mar 1 00:42:13 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: font_cache: Done
Mar 1 00:42:14 n219073058253 org.x.privileged_startx[344]: font_cache: Done
Mar 1 00:42:31 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Michael/.serverauth.335
Mar 1 00:42:51 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Michael/.Xauthority
Mar 1 00:43:31: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 1 00:43:31 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Michael/.Xauthority
Mar 1 00:43:51: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: Listening on socket for fd handoff: (4) /var/tmp/tmp.0.9OYerf
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: Thread created for handoff. Returning success to tell caller to connect and push the fd.
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: Received new $DISPLAY fd: 6 ... sleeping to allow xinitrc to catchup.
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: dostart_x11server(): argc=6
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[0] = /usr/X11/bin/X
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[1] =
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[2] = -nolisten
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[3] = tcp
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[4] = -auth
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[5] = /Users/Michael/.serverauth.335
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: Xquartz: Handoff connection established (try 1 of 5) on fd 6, "/var/tmp/tmp.0.9OYerf". Sending message.
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: Xquartz: Message sent. Closing handoff fd.
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Xquartz starting:
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple45
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Build Date: 20090705
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
Mar 1 00:43:54: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app Handing off fd to server thread via DarwinListenOnOpenFD(6)
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: DarwinListenOnOpenFD: 6
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Calling ListenOnOpenFD() for new fd: 6
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: Launching /usr/X11/bin/xterm:
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[0] = /bin/sh
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[1] = -c
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[2] = /usr/X11/bin/xterm
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I quit the X11:
==========
Mar 1 00:45:45 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Quitting Xquartz...
Mar 1 00:45:45 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: /usr/X11/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost.
Mar 1 00:45:45 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: waiting for X server to shut down
==========
AFTER quitting X11, I can see something related X11 is stilling running:
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Mar 1 00:46:06 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Michael/.Xauthority
==========
So what actually causes this problem?
Thanks in advance!

It turns out that there's something wrong about permissions.
Here's the fix:
(1) log in as the +root user+
(2) type +chown -R Michael:staff ~Michael+
(3) log out the +root user+
(4) log in your account
(5) done!
Hope this thread will help those who encounter the same problem as me!

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