> > On 2014-10-01 6:43 AM, Thomas Massengale wrote: >> I upgraded to Beta 4 of Yosemite and find that GNUBG is no longer loading, >> even if I open X11 (up to date) first. >> >> Any idea why it isn?t working, or when it will work? >> > > Howdy, > > Regarding official GNUbg releases I usually don't put those out until > sometime after a particular OS is officially released. > > Is this the first version of Yosemite that you have tried (I am nsure if > you upgraded from a previous preview release of Yosemite or from an > official OS/X release (mountain lion, lion etc)? > > Occasionally I am forced to produce completely new binaries because > Apple has made libraries incompatible from one release to the other. > > I assume that you properly installed GNUbg by dragging it to the > /Applications folder. If you have done that then I'd be curious for you > to try the following. Open a command terminal and issue these 3 commands: > > uname -a > ls -ld ~/.gnubg > /Applications/gnubg.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/gnubg.x11 > > The last one should attempt to launch GNUbg. Please wait at least 2 > minutes if gnubg.xll sits and thinks the first time it is run. I'd like > to know if you hear GNUbg make any sound when you ran the last command. > > If you can provide me the output from those commands it would be a > useful starting point. > > This year I was approached by Daisuke Takahashi who was updating > Macports to use newer versions of GNUbg. After giving him a bit of help > he now maintains the GNUbg port. Macports GNUbg currently uses the > latest officially release source code (1.03.001). It may be possible to > use Macports to build GNUbg until official binaries are released. I make > no guarantees that Macports + Yosemite + gnubg will compile but if you > are a power user and don't mind getting your hands dirty this might be > an option. > > Information on the latest version of source Macports builds GNUbg from > cnan always be found here: > > https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=gnubg > > -- > Michael Petch Hi Mike Thank you kindly for your reply. I did try everything you said, and while the game window never came up, the sound that generally aquaplanes opening the application did sound. The terminal screen output was as follows… bash-3.2$ uname -a Darwin Thomass-MacBook-Pro-4.local 14.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Sat Sep 27 03:58:47 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2782.1.97~11/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 bash-3.2$ ls -ld ~/.gnubg drwx------ 6 thomasmassengale staff 204 Aug 29 12:15 /Users/thomasmassengale/.gnubg bash-3.2$ /Applications/gnubg.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/gnubg.x11 GNU Backgammon 1.02.000 Jul 28 2013 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Gary Wong. Copyright (C) 2013 by Gary Wong and the AUTHORS; for details type `show version'. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show warranty'. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show copying' for details. (No game) (No game) (No game) I hope that helps us to get this working. FWIW, I had upgraded from the latest release of Mavericks. My gnubg installation was working just fine before the conventional install (i.e. not a clean install). Thanks again for your help and all that you give to the community via your work on gnubg. All the best Thomas
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