On Jan 13, 2008, at 13:36, robert delius royar wrote:
Two things I notice on my system after installing this upgrade 1. It forced a restart (during a TimeMachine hourly backup), and after the restart backups would not run. There was a file marked ".incomplete" for that backup. I have read of other forced restarts (other than from Apple updates) appearing to interfere with TimeMachine. I am still waiting to see if the next window for TM leads to a backup--so far there have been seven failed attempts.
Ok, well unfortunately I can't do anything about time machine. My advice is to not install stuff during the backup if it's buggy about handling that.
2. I did the defaults write, but top shows an extra bash process--is that to be expected? I do not see any tcsh processes other than the ones I started on my own.
You need to install Xquartz-1.3.0-apple8 in /usr/X11/bin. That was a last minute change I made for Martin, and I didn't thuroughly test it. 1.3.0-apple8 should work as you expect. You will see the original bash --login process still, but all your applications will be launched using tcsh on top of that. If you really want to get rid of the bash process, then edit /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ org.x.X11.plist and get rid of those two lines. XQuartz will then have a stripped down environment which means you'll need to give full paths to applications in the Applications menu that live outside of / usr/X11/bin {/,/usr/}{s,}bin
Why do we need to restart OS X and not just the X system?
See the release notes: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.2
I mention TM because I wonder whether there are incompatibilities between TM and forced restart by third-party installers.
This isn't a third party installer. This is Apple's Installer.app. We're not using vise or anything like that.
I can't imagine that any changes in Xquartz or X11.app would affect TM.
Yeah, I don't think that is the case either. --Jeremy