Re: Cannot get gimp app running

2014-11-03 Thread Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
FWIW, the issue is that p11-kit (a dependency of the ffmpeg gegl module) is adding a child atfork handler when the ffmpeg gegl module is opened during initialization. When the module is closed after reading in initialization iformation, the system is left with a dangling pointer. gimp later

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
On Nov 2, 2014, at 10:06, Jeff Singleton gvib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, So after much frustration, much stress, and of course, I broke my Mac in the process. Backed up my user folder from single-user mode (since my mac would not boot all the way). Then I wiped and reinstalled Mavericks,

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
OK, I'm going to bite. Does there exist a resource for Unix geeks to get used to Apple's way of doing things? I've read the Dummy's Guide, but it's not much more than helping Windoze lusers. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server.

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Jeff Singleton
OK look... I explained myself pretty clearly. I was just sharing what I did and how I did it because that is the right thing to do. I know what MDS, MDWORKER do...why does everyone think that I don't? The issue was after upgrading to Yosemite, those indexing processes would never stop.

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Jeff Singleton
On 11/3/14 1:33 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: OK, I'm going to bite. Does there exist a resource for Unix geeks to get used to Apple's way of doing things? I've read the Dummy's Guide, but it's not much more than helping Windoze lusers. I don't think there is a single guide...most of what I

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Michael Crawford
There's lots of good stuff for developers. I'm at work so I can't really take the time to look up all the links and titles. The OS X kernel - xnu? - is a massive fork off of *BSD. The two main differences are that it links _statically_ to Mach, not so much for use as a microkernel, but to avail

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday November 03 2014 11:24:51 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: syslog has nothing to do with it. It's just logging what it's told to log. If you see a lot of CPU usage from syslogd, check what is We should be careful to distinguish the syslog and syslogd commands. I made the error of

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Michael Crawford wrote: There's lots of good stuff for developers. [...] Thanks; that's pretty much what I'm after. I'm a frothing Unix geek (for about 40 years) who was attracted to the Mac precisely because it ran FreeBSD (sort of), but I never ceased to be amazed at

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 6:33 AM +1100 11/4/14, Dave Horsfall wrote: OK, I'm going to bite. Does there exist a resource for Unix geeks to get used to Apple's way of doing things? I've read the Dummy's Guide, but it's not much more than helping Windoze lusers. Hard to know exactly what you are looking for, but you

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Michael Crawford
I'm a frothing Unix geek (for about 40 years) Heh. I'm a frothing VAX/VMS Geek myself. I actually scored a FORTRAN contract in 2006. There _are_ some advantages to OS X over UNIX. One thing that has always gotten me down about UNIX is that when one installs a new program, it's likely to spew

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
On Nov 3, 2014, at 11:37, Jeff Singleton gvib...@gmail.com wrote: OK look... I explained myself pretty clearly. I was just sharing what I did and how I did it because that is the right thing to do. Whoa. Such hostility. That is certainly not called for. I asked for clarification

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday November 03 2014 12:22:00 Michael Crawford wrote: I'm a frothing VAX/VMS Geek myself. I actually scored a FORTRAN contract in 2006. I myself helped a bit with the QA of A/UX 2.0 in 1989 and 1990. A VAX/VMS real programmers use Fortran kinda guy working on (I presume) the A/UX

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Jeff Singleton
Wow Michael.. we should talk. VAX/VMS and Fortran is what I worked with in the Navy for 8 years. Ah yes, back in the day when hard drives were the size of truck tires. Jeff On 11/3/14 2:22 PM, Michael Crawford wrote: I'm a frothing Unix geek (for about 40 years) Heh. I'm a frothing

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Michael Crawford
IBM made the first hard drives out of red paint. I mean like the paint they use on the golden gate bridge. I Am Absolutely Serious. But that kind of paint tends to clump up, so they were filtering it through ladies' nylon stockings. (Facepalm). It didn't occur to me until just recently that

Trac is broke

2014-11-03 Thread Jeff Singleton
Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but Trac is broken. All I see is this in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/trac/web/api.py, line 441, in send_error data, 'text/html') File

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread William H. Magill
On Nov 3, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Jeff Singleton gvib...@gmail.com wrote: Wow Michael.. we should talk. VAX/VMS and Fortran is what I worked with in the Navy for 8 years. Ah yes, back in the day when hard drives were the size of truck tires. Sigh, memories,-- many of us old VAX/VMS people

Re: Trac is broke

2014-11-03 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Nov 3, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Jeff Singleton gvib...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but Trac is broken. All I see is this in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/trac/web/api.py, line 441, in

Re: Trac is broke

2014-11-03 Thread Jeff Singleton
On 11/3/14 9:23 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: On Nov 3, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Jeff Singleton gvib...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but Trac is broken. All I see is this in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: Trac is broke

2014-11-03 Thread Jeff Singleton
Odd... I just cleared my History/Cache/Cookies in Chrome, and now it works. How odd. On 11/3/14 9:23 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: On Nov 3, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Jeff Singleton gvib...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but Trac is broken. All I see is this in Chrome,

Re: Trac is broke

2014-11-03 Thread William H. Magill
Chrome still shows that same issue about AssertionError: Session ID not set. There seems to be something happening on the Net, or with time or Safari or ...? Basically, a WIKI which I edit regularly has begun generating what we are calling session time outs on page edits lately. Page edits

Re: GIMP 2.8.14 on Yosemite Does Not Recognize Image File Types

2014-11-03 Thread Jeff Singleton
Looks like Ticket #45309 has been fixed. Adding a new patch glib2-45309.patch to fix the issue. Wanted to say GOOD JOB to Jeremy for this. Jeff On 10/26/14 6:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Jeff Singleton wrote: Upgraded to Yosemite, and after reading through the