I tried to make a ports upgrade but missed to read UPDATING so did a full upgrade without doing some pre-requisites which led to a lot of problems…. one odd thing was that the cairo package didn’t recognize I had X installed… the configuration said no x. but then I did:
cd work/cairo-1.6.4/
./configure –enable-xlib=yes –enable-xlib_xrender=yes
make
cd ../..
make install

and now it seems to be alright…. don’t get it.