X start up issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Dec 15, 2015, at 11:27 PM, jam at tigger.ws wrote:
> 
> 
> First thanks for all the wise words.
> My *biggest* problem is that one login all works the next login it does not!
> 
> Trying desperate measures I upgraded to el Capitan installed the correct macports dmg.
> Many ports eg wget do build. qt5 fails to build. gnuplot fails to build (the latest ticket says do selfupdate all is fixed, but it is not)
> 
> Many tries later so the peamble is done:
> 
>> [Haycorn] /Users/jam [502]% sudo     port install gnuplot
>> Password:
>> --->  Computing dependencies for gnuplot
>> --->  Dependencies to be installed: aquaterm gd2 libvpx yasm xpm xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice libcaca freeglut libGLU mesa bison bison-runtime m4 flex indent py27-libxml2 xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXmu xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto xorg-libXxf86vm xorg-xf86vidmodeproto imlib2 giflib libid3tag libcerf lua pango Xft2 gobject-introspection py27-mako py27-beaker py27-setuptools py27-markupsafe wxWidgets-3.0 wxWidgets_select
>> --->  Building aquaterm
>> Error: org.macports.build for port aquaterm returned: command execution failed
>> Error: Failed to install aquaterm
>> Please see the log file for port aquaterm for details:
>>    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_aqua_aquaterm/aquaterm/main.log
>> Error: The following dependencies were not installed: aquaterm gd2 libvpx yasm xpm xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice libcaca freeglut libGLU mesa bison bison-runtime m4 flex indent py27-libxml2 xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXmu xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto xorg-libXxf86vm xorg-xf86vidmodeproto imlib2 giflib libid3tag libcerf lua pango Xft2 gobject-introspection py27-mako py27-beaker py27-setuptools py27-markupsafe wxWidgets-3.0 wxWidgets_select
>> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>>    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
>> Error: Processing of port gnuplot failed
> 
> I executed the command that was logged as failed, everything worked perfectly.
> 
> Now I need advise from people here please:
> 
> I’ll format the disk and start from scratch (I do have a time machine backup)
> If people have made qt5 and gnuplot work with el Capitan I will install that else I’ll do yosemite.
> 
> The reply about the SDKs looks right and I will do that (thanks). 

If a port doesn't build, please file a ticket in our issue tracker per the instructions in the guide. There's no need to anything so drastic as erasing your entire disk and starting over, and no reason at this point to believe, without having seen the logs of what issues you're actually experiencing, that that would solve anything.