Re: Trouble with uxterm in Snow Leopard
Re: Trouble with uxterm in Snow Leopard
- Subject: Re: Trouble with uxterm in Snow Leopard
- From: Richard Cobbe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:59:49 -0500
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On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:47:38PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2009, at 15:52, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > ... and this issue is officially no longer a problem.
> >
> > I'm rolling back to 10.5. There were just too many problems with 10.6; all
> > of the others (including the really severe ones) had nothing whatsoever to
> > do with X, so I won't bore folks on this with the details.
>
> I'm curious what the issues were. For the most part, SL has solved way more issues than it has introduced. Did you update to 10.6.2?
Yes, I updated to 10.6.2. The problems were all with 3rd party software,
various bits of MacPorts and Fink (I tried each, but not at the same time).
I couldn't get gnucash to start with MacPorts; it couldn't find gconfd, I
think. I spent about 15 minutes trying to get the various daemons to load
and decided that I didn't want to fight with Gnome configuration, so I
ditched MacPorts and went to Fink.
Fink's python isn't linked correctly, so it aborts on startup in various
applications (see http://bugs.python.org/issue7144 and
http://bugs.python.org/issue7085 for more info; note that the Python
maintainers have implemented a solution that just hasn't made it into Fink
yet). Unfortunately, one of the apps that's affected is offlineIMAP, which
is central to my email workflow.
I'm sure that the MacPorts and/or Fink folks will address these problems in
time, and I'll be happy to try upgrading again once they do. But since
gnucash & offlineIMAP are kind of essential to me, I'm going to wait until
that happens.
Richard
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