-N really has no effect on the build process. Ok, I'll take a look at the sysdiagnose. Send me the link offline, and I'll look at it as soon as I can.
> On Apr 6, 2017, at 07:29, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Jeremy -- > > Thanks for getting back to me. > > The init scripts aren’t the problem. I haven’t changed them in years, and > I don’t have the same problem on a different Mac. Just to be sure, I did > the test with a new user, and X11 crashes in the same way. The obvious > difference between the broken Mac and the working one is that on the > broken one I tried to reinstall all of the ports at once, using -N, and on > the working Mac I didn’t use -N. I don’t remember the order in which I > did the installation, though. > > I’ll put the sysdiagnose output on NIST’s secure file transfer site and > send you a link to it. I think it’ll choke our e-mail server. > > -- Steve > > On 4/6/17, 12:35 AM, "Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You likely have an issue with one of your shell init scripts or a bad >> ~/.xinitrc present. That's what is the cause of almost all such issues. >> >> Try creating a new user on your computer, logging in as that user, and >> launching X11. If it works, then it's almost certainly ~/.xinitrc, >> ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, etc. >> >> If it's not that, please take a sysdiagnose while X11 is restarting, and >> send it to me. >> >> --Jeremy >> >> >>> On Apr 5, 2017, at 07:23, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi -- >>> >>> I posted this note to macports-users, but didn't get a helpful >>> response, so I'm trying again here: >>> >>> 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? >>> >>> Since that post, I have tried completely uninstalling macports, >>> reinstalling just xorg-server and xterm, and rebooting, but I'm still >>> seeing the same behavior. Just to be sure that it's not a xterm >>> problem, I tried xeyes, which fails the same way. >>> >>> Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thank you. >>> >>> -- Steve >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/jeremyhu%40freedesktop. >>> org >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/jeremyhu%40freedesktop.org > > This email sent to [email protected]
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