On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, Chris Jones via macports-users wrote: > Sounds like you have an issue with your X11 server, as these > applications are perhaps hanging at the point they are waiting for it to > start up.
Sounds about right (it used to work). > 1. Does it automatically start if you run a very basic X11 application, > like xeyes ? > > > sudo port install xeyes > > xeyes > > If that does not trigger the X11 server to start, then the issue is with > that. It hangs as well... > 2. can you manually start the X11 server instead of relying on the > automatic startup via the DISPLAY socket ? I ran "startx", and the applications still hang. I even rebooted the Mac (it was up for nearly 3 weeks!), to no effect. I took a coredump of one process (with CTL-\) and then found that GDB won't compile (a separate issue which I'm looking at -- it used to work too)... -- Dave
