----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Schmidt" <ryandesign@macports.org> To: "Jenn Mixxmann" <juicimixx@doramail.com> Subject: Re: su problem after bad meld install Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:34:06 -0500

On Aug 17, 2007, at 06:07, Jenn Mixxmann wrote:

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I tried using macports to install meld (a visual diff tool). The install failed due to some dependency.

Not entirely surprising... when all is said and done, meld has well over a hundred dependencies. [1]

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This turned out to be okay since I ended up using a different tool than meld. However it left my root account in a bit of a quandry. I ran port install meld directly from the root account since I was taking care of some other tasks also. After the install failed, I exited from the account back to a normal account and did some other work. When I needed to su back, I noted: 1) the default shell for root had changed from bash to sh

I'm not aware of any part of MacPorts that should be doing that. Can anyone else think of why that would have happened?

For the record, on Mac OS X, sh is bash so this should not have caused you any difficulty at all.

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2) every time I ran 'su', Little Snitch would pop up saying that su was trying to contact my DNS server on port 53. (I can allow or deny the request; it doesn't matter since su will still work correctly.)

I changed the default shell back to bash, however I'm not sure of what to do to fix the second problem or why su needs to contact the DNS server. Is there a quick fix for this?

Also not sure what's going on there. I know that the heimdal port, for example, will install its own su, which may behave differently from the system's su. But heimdal is not a dependency of meld.

[1] It's a pretty impressive dependency graph, really:

http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/meld.png

Wow, I was actually pretty surprised by all the dependencies for meld. Had I checked on this ahead of time, I probably wouldn't have tried to install it. For what it's worth, the version of su in /opt/local/bin is definately the culprit. I renamed it and went back to using su in /usr/bin and all seems well. I tried to install meld once more, but it seems to fail around libxslt, saing that libxml2 isn't right (needs at least 2.6.27, and I have 2.6.23). Thanks. -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mail.doramail.com Powered by Outblaze