X11 no longer launching

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On May 2, 2012, at 16:40, Ted Kord <teddy.kord at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 May 2012 17:39, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Ted Kord <teddy.kord at gmail.com> wrote
>> 
>>> On 1 May 2012 23:57, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ted Kord <teddy.kord at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I installed xorg-server @1.12.0_0 and now X11 doesn't launch
>>>>> automatically. So, I'm unable to use programs that require X11 like Matlab,
>>>>> Gimp, Inkscape, etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Even uncommenting the path to macports in my .bash_profile fails to
>>>>> launch the system's X11 server.
>>>>> 
>>>>> How can I resolve this?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Check /Applications/Utility/Console.app for error messages.
>>>> 
>>>> "The domain/default pair of (org.macports.X11, dpi) does not exist
>>> (org.macports.startx) Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds"
>>> 
>> 
>> That's noise, not a real error.  Is that *really* the only message in the
>> log?
>> 
>> 
> Yes, it just keeps repeating.

Yes, it keeps repeating, but you're not including the *real* error.  Please provide more context.

what is the output of:

$ echo $DISPLAY
$ launchctl list | grep startx
$ sudo launchctl list | grep startx