Hi Frank -- Yes, I logged out and back in. I had to because I couldn't stop X11 from repeatedly launching and dying otherwise!
When I run "port installed xorg-libXt" now I get exactly what you have. 501>> port installed xorg-libXt The following ports are currently installed: xorg-libXt @1.1.5_1 (active) But when I try to start xterm, X11 fails to launch, and keeps trying and failing until I log out, whether or not I kill the xterm. Sometimes a dialog appears asking I really want to relaunch, but it keeps relaunching even if I tell it not to. I don't have any problems running X11 with macports on a different computer. -- Steve From: macports-users <[email protected]> on behalf of "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 10:38 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: X11 won't start Hi Steve, On Apr 4, 2017, at 8:27 AM, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) <[email protected]<mailto:[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
