Hello Jeremy! This newly compiled version in MacPorts shows errors from new xkbcomp, which is not fatal. Then xinit reports: Notice xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 Xrdb is executed, until xinit reports: Notice /opt/local/bin/xset: bad font path element (#8), possible causes are: Notice Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Notice Directory missing fonts.dir Notice Incorrect font server address or syntax Then my init scripts are executed, 11-fontpath.sh, 12-TeX-fontpath.sh, 50-clients.sh, and 99-blackbox.sh. One version of GNU Emacs complains about missing charsets, which should be fatal. Next follows: Notice xinit: connection to X server lost Notice waiting for X server to shut down Notice Quitting Xquartz Notice Connection lost to X server `:0.0' System.log has additionally: Nov 3 00:59:32 Latsche com.apple.launchd[1] (org.macports.privileged_startx[26988]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 27180 PPID 26994 fc-cache Nov 3 00:59:32 Latsche com.apple.launchd[1] (org.macports.privileged_startx[26988]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 26994 PPID 1 bash Previously, with xorg-server-devel @1.9.1_0, all was fine. It *was*, because it now shows the same error. Commenting all Emacs clients does not change anything, blackboxwm crashes. So it must be some library which was installed recently... Font path should be initially: /opt/local/share/fonts/misc/,/opt/local/share/fonts/TTF/,/opt/local/ share/fonts/OTF/,/opt/local/share/fonts/Type1/,/opt/local/share/fonts/ 100dpi/,/opt/local/share/fonts/75dpi/,/Library/Fonts,/System/Library/ Fonts,built-ins then /sw/lib/X11/fonts/naga10/,/sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/,/usr/X11/share/ fonts/local/,/Library/Fonts/Extrafonts/,/Library/Fonts/PostScript 3/ and finally /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/inconsolata,/ usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/arkandis/libris,/usr/ local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/hoekwater/lmextra,/usr/ local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/Asana-Math,/usr/ local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/belleek,/usr/local/ texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/itrans,/usr/local/ texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/junicode are added. -- Greetings Pete Remember: use logout to logout.