X11_MacPort Problem

[Samuel Cousin]

Thx a lot. I will try to see that !

Le 13 août 2014 à 12:02, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> a écrit :

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> On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:52 AM, Samuel Cousin wrote:
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>> Hi Ryan, Thx for the help.
>> 
>> So X11.app quite itself and reopens, yes. When I restart the computer X11 don’t start (obviously) but if i try to run an application using it (for me it’s xmGrace) the loops can not be stop…
>> I’m using the 10.9.4 of OSX. For X11 I’m using XQuartz 2.7.6. For the Xcode I’m using 5.1.1.
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>> Obviously i tried several time to restart my computer. Without any improvement.
>> 
>> It was working since 6 month. The problem appeared yesterday, and I really don’t know why. 
>> 
>> For the question of the xorg-server, i’m afraid that i don’t know the answer. I’m not very good in computer, and i switch to mac at the beginning of my PhD 10 month ago. So I’m slow :)
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>> And for the last question, the problem is that I instal MacPorts without knowing what I was doing. So if I look at all directory, it’s a pur mess… I think that it can produce conflict etc… I think the best way is to try to reinstall everything. But I’m not very confident knowing my computer skill…
>> 
>> Thanks a lot (again) 
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> At this time I see nothing that would suggest reinstalling MacPorts or any ports would help anything.
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> If you have XQuartz, then you're probably using XQuartz's X11.app, not MacPorts'. That's fine; you can use either one. They're basically the same software, maintained by the same person. Installing xorg-server with MacPorts has some advantages over using the XQuartz distribution if you're using MacPorts anyway:
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> * MacPorts gets updates more frequently than XQuartz so MacPorts versions are slightly more up to date
> * You won't have duplicate copies of X11 software (one in XQuartz, one in MacPorts)
> * You can update everything using MacPorts and don't have to separately update XQuartz
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> But it's up to you which one you use.
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> If it's quitting unexpectedly, are crash logs being generated? Check in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/. If so, show us a recent one.