:0 just means to connect using /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ... did something happen to 
delete that?  I'd expect this behavior if something deleted it.

> On Mar 28, 2015, at 07:39, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday March 26 2015 15:18:20 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> That is quite bizarre.  I'm able to run 'DISPLAY=:0.0 /opt/local/bin/xterm' 
>> without issue.
> 
> A couple of reboots of the VM later, and this issue is back: applications 
> using the Xt from MacPorts won't connect to an X server on :0 or :0.0. The 
> error:
> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0
> 
> Note that this is not a "connection refused" error.
> 
> This time I've done some more forensics, and unloaded the new 
> org.macports.startx and (ooold!) org.x.startx plists from launchctl, just 
> like I always did with the one from XQuartz.
> That in itself didn't make any difference, but it is still the case that all 
> applications can connect to a 2nd X server at :1 or :1.0, even those using 
> the Xt from MacPorts.
> 
> Interestingly, everyone can also connect to the server at :0 when I use 
> DISPLAY=localhost:0 (which should be the same ...)
> That at least gives me a workaround fix in my .xinitrc, but I'd love to get 
> to the bottom of this.
> 
> I've been seeing this message in my system.log after logging in, could it be 
> related?
> /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[153]: The 
> address for `localhost' is a loopback address, not allowed!
> 
> I'm not sure what this message means, I think /etc/hosts should have a line 
> "127.0.0.1 localhost" like it's always had, and I can't recall ever having 
> seen this message before.
> 
> Thanks,
> R.

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