On Jun 25, 2009, at 22:38, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jun 24, 2009, at 16:47, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I figured they'd be lost if I had to kill the terminal. Of
course, I'm not 100% sure that this is the issue. For all I
know, the process could have been okay and it could be something
else that crashed it. (Come to think of it, there was an ssh
connection, but it's a program I'm always running in the b.g.) I
figure in worst case, since it's the first thing I'm installing,
I could wipe out any KDE directory in Applications and just wipe
all of /opt, reinstall MacPorts and restart.
Is there any place else KDE would store files that I'd have to
clear out if I do that?
After restarting Terminal or the computer, you can try again.
You can use the "-d" flag ("port -d install amarok") to get a
lot more information printed out. This will let you see what
exactly a port was doing if and when it gets hung up. On the
other hand, the vast quantity of output you will get means you
will very likely miss any "you must do this after installing the
port"-type messages that some ports print.
I was also going to see if I could find a list somewhere of all
the messages from KDE. It looks like each package is giving me
the same message at the start and the end.
I'll most likely wipe out /opt and just start clean, since I
don't have any other packages done with MacPorts yet. I don't
mind letting it rebuild qt overnight.
If you want to do that, you should follow the uninstall
instructions shown here:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts
As noted elsewhere, I went on with the install and eventually
(after fixing the svn issue - thanks, Ryan!), I'm dealing with a
problem I think is related to this issue. After it was all
installed properly, I ran the following commands:
sudo chown -R $USER ~/Library/Preferences/KDE
open /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/kdeinit4.app
launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-
session.plist
The first two were the instructions given at the start of most
packages as they were installed and the last one was given at the
end. When I ran the last one, I got this:
nothing found to load
I suspect that when my terminal locked up previously, there were
some messages on what to run that I didn't get to see. Is there a
resource somewhere that would give me an output of that install
command or a list of command lines I have to run after KDE is
installed?
Also, would I have to run the last 2 commands each time my iMac
boots or is it like some Linux systems -- that once a service is
running, it restarts on boot until a user stops it?
I'll let someone else answer what is required to get KDE to run. I
don't know.
"chown" would permanently set the ownership; it won't get unset.
"open" is the same as double-clicking something in the Finder.
"launchctl load -w" loads a service and tells it to launch at every
system startup. "launchctl unload -w" unloads a service and tells it
not to load at every system startup. If you don't use the "-w"
option, then the service is started or stopped, but nothing is
changed about what happens at system startup.
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