xorg-server @1.17.2 doesn't work

[graziosi.angelo@…]

I have just upgraded MacPorts (on OSX 10.11),

$ sudo port selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.3.4 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.3.4 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated

$ sudo port outdated
The following installed ports are outdated:
xorg-server                    1.16.4_1 < 1.17.2_0

$ sudo port upgrade outdated
--->  Computing dependencies for xorg-server
[...]
--->  Attempting to fetch xorg-server-1.17.2.tar.bz2 from http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/
--->  Verifying checksums for xorg-server
--->  Extracting xorg-server
--->  Applying patches to xorg-server
--->  Configuring xorg-server
--->  Building xorg-server
--->  Staging xorg-server into destroot
--->  Installing xorg-server @1.17.2_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-server
--->  Computing dependencies for xorg-server
--->  Deactivating xorg-server @1.16.4_1
--->  Cleaning xorg-server
--->  Activating xorg-server @1.17.2_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-server
--->  Updating database of binaries
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  No broken files found.

but xorg-server-1.17.2_0 does not seem to work.

My apps work with xorg-server-1.16.4_1 but not with the new. These apps open a graphics window in which they draw something and the X11 icon appears in the Dock. With 1.17.2_0 nothing happens. The apps hang. No X11 in the Dock

The same occurs also with other MacPorts applications. For example:

$ gv foo.ps &
[1] 25869

and it hangs without X11 in the Dock.

[graziosi.angelo@…]

It seems we need a reboot.. I wonder why with previous xorg-server updates this was not necessary...

[jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)]

It works for me.

If you see something like this in the future, make sure you grab a sysdiagnose as that might provide some clues as to what was going on. Without that, it's pretty hard to investigate.