Hi Steve,
> On Apr 4, 2017, at 8:27 AM, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just updated my computer to Sierra, and now X11 won't start. I presumed > that I had messed up the macports migration, so I just uninstalled everything > and installed only xorg-server and xterm, but I'm still getting the same > error. There's an "X11 quit unexpectedly" dialog, which keeps reappearing > when dismissed. I have to log out to get it to go away. > > System.log is filled with lines like "X[6012]: no path for address 0x1234567" > > In case it's relevant, what I might have screwed up in the first migration > was that I tried to install only the requested ports, which has worked for me > in the past. But this time I put them all on one line, and used -N so that > port wouldn't ask me for permission to install the dependencies, and I could > leave it to work on its own. That ran into problems caused by > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49379. It seemed to have installed > xorg-libXt with +flat_namespace and then reinstalled it without it, or vice > versa (both were installed but I forget which was active). In any case, I > uninstalled everything, installed xorg-libXt first, using +flat_namespace, > and then installed all the other requested ports without -N so that I'd see > if anything went wrong. I didn't see any errors, but X11 wouldn't start. > This morning I tried installing only xorg-server and xterm, and it still > won't start. > > Why is X11 failing to start? How can I keep it from attempting to start > repeatedly, even after I've killed xterm or whatever other X11 app I'm using? > What might have I done wrong in the installation and how can I fix it? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated! Did you logout and log back in after re-installing xorg-server? FYI, here is what I have installed for xorg-libXt on Sierra with working xorg-server. $ port installed xorg-libXt The following ports are currently installed: xorg-libXt @1.1.5_1 (active) Cheers! Frank
