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
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