<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:22 PM, James Linder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" target="_blank">jam@tigger.ws</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 11/02/2014, at 11:25 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, James Linder <<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws">jam@tigger.ws</a>> wrote:<br>
> I reinstalled snow leopard but xcode failed to install 'Unknown error ..."<br>
> The googled fixes did not work, but that with support and deep black magic and xcode installed<br>
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> You installed Xcode 5 on Snow Leopard?! Xcode 3.6 would have been smarter (you can still find it buried in the apple developer downloads).<br>Brendon why do you think xcode 5? It is 3.6.2<br>(And much spelinking shows that the certificate for the iPhone SDK has expired so I installed the unix tools only, that worked)<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You didn't specify and last I checked older xcode-s installed fine on older OS revisions (iPhone SDKs will whine but I don't even install those, they're optional until at least 4.x). </div>
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> Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /opt/local/libexec/gnome-terminal-server exited with status 1<br>
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> Is dbus running? Both sides (there's a LaunchDaemon running as root and a LaunchAgent running as you)?<br></div>
In desperation I installed gnome-terminal from fink. It too does not work, but for other reasons. But NOW the mac ports version does work !!<br>
Clearly dark magic is happening, but I want a terminal for other stuff, so I'm happy (but confused)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That sounds like Fink installed and activated dbus and gnome is now using it. I would not want to bet on that being stable though (dbus from Fink with everything else from MacPorts).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Alternately you logged out and back in at some point (and maybe rebooted for the system end but I don't think that's necessary?) and that activated MacPorts' dbus-session agent.</div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I had already done launchctrl as prescribed - the LaunchDaemon and LaunchAgent are a total mystery to me, where can I learn about?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's what the stuff in `port notes dbus` is talking about. Note that you have to log out and back in for launchd to be able to put the environment variable pointing to the dbus agent into the environment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>LaunchDaemons run as root and are started at system boot; that's what dbus-system.plist uses to start the system end of dbus.</div><div><br></div><div>LaunchAgents run as the user and are started at login; that's what dbus-session uses to start the dbus user agent. It also puts a pointer to the dbus agent socket into the environment, without which programs like gnome-terminal can't find the dbus user agent.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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