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: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:03:10 -0500
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On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:33PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 15:59, Richard Cobbe wrote:
<SNIP>
> > 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.
>
> Did you enable the dbus LaunchAgent and LaunchDaemon? This isn't something new to SnowLeopard...
Well, if it involves the files that MacPorts put into /Library/LaunchAgents
and /Library/LaunchDaemons, then I tried, but I was unsuccessful.
And yes, I know this isn't a Snow Leopard problem. The process went like
this:
- upgrade to Snow Leopard
- think, "well, I've wanted to try MacPorts for a while, and since I just
did an erase-and-install and have the time, this is a good
opportunity."
- "Oh, gnucash doesn't work."
- Spend ~10 minutes fighting w/ dbus; decide to give up & switch back to
Fink.
- "Oh, offlineIMAP doesn't work."
- 15 minutes of Googling uncovers the problem with python that I
mentioned above.
- Oh, OK, I can't get both gnucash and offlineIMAP working, unless I
install both Fink & MacPorts, which sounds like it has the potential
for really nasty fallout, so let's not go there.
- I don't have the time, energy, or inclination to fight with this any
longer. Back to 10.5, where everything works.
Given all the time I've sunk into this, and the fact that I go back to work
on Monday and lose a big chunk of my free time, it was pretty obvious to me
that rolling back to 10.5 for the moment was a better use of my time -- I
actually need to get useful work done on my computer. As I said, once
these issues settle down, I'll be happy to consider going back to 10.6, but
not for a while.
Also, I've had so much grief over the years fighting with the
dbus/gconfd/etc. mess that I'm starting to look for alternatives to
gnucash, which is the only Gnome application I run at all heavily. I'd
switch to Quicken in an instant, because the $70 is more than worth all the
time I've sunk into this mess, if it weren't for the fact that I'd
apparently have to migrate all my data manually. :-(
Richard
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