X11_MacPort Problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:11 AM, Samuel Cousin wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> Sorry to disturb you, I’m a french researcher that you currently use MacPort for my job.
> I had a problem yesterday with a shut down every 3s of X11 and restart (etc…). So I decide to uninstall it and reinstall it. However, softwares that I used still don’t work. 
> I’ve got the impression that MacPort don’t recognize the X11. I was thinking to uninstall MacPort, but because you propose to ask question her, if someone can help me I would be better.

When you say "shutdown every 3s of X11 and restart" do you mean that X11.app quits itself and then reopens?

What version of OS X do you use? What version of Xcode?

Have you already tried restarting your computer?

Has this ever worked?

Do you have the xorg-server port installed?

What happens if you launch /Applications/MacPorts/X11.app directly? Does it quit after 3 seconds?


> Note that when I tape on my terminal $ port version, an error message command not found appeared…

Sounds like the path to the port command is not in your PATH environment variable. Where is port actually installed (usually it's in /opt/local/bin) and what is the value of your PATH environment variable? (find out by running "echo $PATH")