XV and GV hanging

[Ken Cunningham]

1. Do you have an X11 server installed? Look in /Applications/MacPorts for it. Mine is called X11.app.
2. Does it run if you double click it?
3. If it does run, open an xterm terminal from the "Applications" menu in the X11.app. (you obviously do need xterm installed for it to open).
4. If xterm does open -- try running your xeyes or other x11 applications from the xterm terminal. That often works even when the Terminal application won't open them.


NB having two different X11 infrastructures installed, eg MacPorts X11 and another one like XQuartz or Apple's X11 infrastructure, is just a recipe for disaster. Many folks have solved their X11 headaches by stripping out everything except the one they want (usually the MacPorts one is the one you want).

HTH,

K



On 2024-09-05, at 1:46 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, Chris Jones via macports-users wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like you have an issue with your X11 server, as these 
>> applications are perhaps hanging at the point they are waiting for it to 
>> start up.
> 
> Sounds about right (it used to work).
> 
>> 1. Does it automatically start if you run a very basic X11 application, 
>> like xeyes ?
>> 
>>> sudo port install xeyes
>>> xeyes
>> 
>> If that does not trigger the X11 server to start, then the issue is with 
>> that.
> 
> It hangs as well...
> 
>> 2. can you manually start the X11 server instead of relying on the 
>> automatic startup via the DISPLAY socket ?
> 
> I ran "startx", and the applications still hang.
> 
> I even rebooted the Mac (it was up for nearly 3 weeks!), to no effect.
> 
> I took a coredump of one process (with CTL-\) and then found that GDB 
> won't compile (a separate issue which I'm looking at -- it used to work 
> too)...
> 
> -- Dave