Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, William H. Magill wrote: After a tremendous amount of effort on the part of numerous kernel programmers at DEC, they discovered that the bottom level BSD I/O modules had not been looked at (literally) since PDP days. Disk I/O was being done in 128 byte blocks. You

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:29 AM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: A bit too many reports of comparable symptoms in 10.9 somehow related to disk I/O errors for my comfort zone. OS X wouldn't be doing something low level that somehow stresses the disk hardware I hope? Just for one example

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:29 AM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't immediately think about disk i/o errors either from the symptoms you described (not for short freezes in anyway). Not with an hdd anyway. I would --- but that may be because I've seen it in action (most closely

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Thursday January 22 2015 09:40:28 Brandon Allbery wrote: Just for one example (in the area of complex systems): HFS+'s hot file support is the sort of thing that can exacerbate failing disks... and the effect would get worse with certain kinds of changes to what files are hot, which might

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:02 AM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: And yes, I do keep in mind that Apple has reasons to drive sales and incite people to buy new hardware and is probably not above tactics that decrease a product's theoretical lifetime. I think there are a lot of things

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread James Linder
On 23 Jan 2015, at 12:42 am, William H. Magill mag...@mac.com wrote: I cannot explain why a (normally) rational, sane thinking idiot did not make that his first port of call (beautifully synced) Jan 21 00:04:34 haycorn kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error. Thanks everybody, and sorry for

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday January 23 2015 08:56:31 James Linder wrote: smartctl -a gives zillions of errors eg 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 081 060 030Pre-fail Always - 147598082 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 038 025 000Old_age Always - 183829319

Re: OT probably, help please (fwd)

2015-01-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
...@horsfall.org To: René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT probably, help please Someone mentioned launchd.info (and I daftly deleted the message). Does it look as wonky for others as it does for me? I'm using Firefox 35.0 (haven't tried others, as the last time I did it buggered

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:26 PM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: Oh wait, but you're running FreeBSD on it ... O:-) I read MacBook with a FreeBSD *server*. I used to run that kind of setup myself (and am trying to scrounge hardware to do so again...). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 22, 2015, at 4:29 AM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday January 22 2015 08:56:25 James Linder wrote: I cannot explain why a (normally) rational, sane thinking idiot did not make that his first port of call (beautifully synced) Jan 21 00:04:34 haycorn

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-21 Thread James Linder
On 22 Jan 2015, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: change mail from one entry to another: wheel turns for 10-20 seconds then all is normal including change topic (repeat previous selection). firefox:youtube watch a clip, midway stops playing and wheel turns

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-21 Thread James Linder
On 21 Jan 2015, at 2:38 pm, William H. Magill mag...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 20, 2015, at 10:28 PM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: G’day The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term x11 but worked with term aqua. Maybe it was just slow ! I have an

OT probably, help please

2015-01-20 Thread James Linder
G’day The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term x11 but worked with term aqua. Maybe it was just slow ! I have an issue where the system has (suddenly) become very slow … iMac 27 top:cpu free 99 ish % system-monitor also shows cpu cores at 0% busy men free 8G

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-20 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 20, 2015, at 10:28 PM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: G’day The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term x11 but worked with term aqua. Maybe it was just slow ! I have an issue where the system has (suddenly) become very slow … iMac 27

Re: Help please

2012-02-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 21, 2012, at 22:44, James Linder wrote: checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime checking for Apple Foundation library... no configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your

Re: Help please

2012-02-22 Thread James Linder
On 23/02/2012, at 1:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 21, 2012, at 22:44, James Linder wrote: checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime checking for Apple Foundation library... no configure:

Re: Help please

2012-02-19 Thread James Linder
On 20/02/2012, at 4:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 19, 2012, at 06:21, James Linder wrote: On 19/02/2012, at 4:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:06, James Linder wrote: On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote:

Re: Help please

2012-02-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote: sh-3.2# port install libgnome Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl: no such file or directory Please clean (sudo port clean libgnome) and try again, using the debug flag (sudo

Re: uninstall help please

2010-05-12 Thread John B Brown
Dear Ryan, The environment has been scrubbed along with the /opt/local tree. I'm using a GNU gcc-4.5.0 bootstrapped using the Xcode compiler. It was compiled after I removed all trace of /opt/local. There are two places where libintl resides on this box; /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. Why the

uninstall help please

2010-05-11 Thread John B Brown
Dear Folk, After following my own advice and the directions, I find I have a serious problem. In compiling programs that use libintl, the linker looks for libintl in /opt/local/lib and there is no such tree on my system. After the uninstall process I wiped that entire /opt/local tree.

Re: uninstall help please

2010-05-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 11, 2010, at 22:42, John B Brown wrote: After following my own advice and the directions, I find I have a serious problem. In compiling programs that use libintl, the linker looks for libintl in /opt/local/lib and there is no such tree on my system. After the uninstall process

Re: uninstall help please

2010-05-02 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 1, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Somewhat frequently I too get about 5 KB/sec (guess that's about 30 kb/sec) from this server. Other times it's plenty fast. This has been going on for awhile: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-July/005596.html It might

Re: uninstall help please

2010-05-02 Thread Scott Haneda
On May 2, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On May 1, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Somewhat frequently I too get about 5 KB/sec (guess that's about 30 kb/sec) from this server. Other times it's plenty fast. This has been going on for awhile:

Re: uninstall help please

2010-05-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 1, 2010, at 00:43, Andrea D'Amore wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter. Interesting enough I have always got and

Re: uninstall help please

2010-05-01 Thread David Nicholls
Andrea D'Amore wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter. Interesting enough I have always got and still get

uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread Scott Mc Laughlin
hi, this is my first time using macports, I have poor skills and limited experience with non drag'n'drop installations so hopefully this makes sense to you. I'm on OSX 10.6.3 I installed macports then ran the selfupdate, I had to leave and I think the computer went to sleep while the update was

Re: uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Scott Mc Laughlin mugl...@gmail.com wrote: Can I delete it all and start again? it the single library or it the whole macports installation? IMHO you could as well reinstall the pkg again over the existing macports installation. Thanks, Scott -- Andrea

Re: uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread John B Brown
Dear Scott, If you wish to uninstall macports and try over again here are directions. http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html Works for me. On 4/30/10 11:27 AM, Scott Mc Laughlin wrote: hi, this is my first time using macports, I have poor

Re: uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread Adam Mercer
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:27, Scott Mc Laughlin mugl...@gmail.com wrote: scott-mc:~ scott$ sudo port -d selfupdate Password: dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no suitable image found.  Did find: /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: no

Re: uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread Scott Haneda
On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: Looks like you used the wrong installer for your platform. Make sure you download the correct installer. Why is this possible? Is Apple's packagemaker tool used for creating the MacPorts installer? My very limited experience in using it, I

Re: uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 30, 2010, at 17:04, Scott Haneda wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: Looks like you used the wrong installer for your platform. Make sure you download the correct installer. Why is this possible? As of MacPorts 1.7.1, it's not:

Re: uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-5-1 04:23 , Adam Mercer wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:27, Scott Mc Laughlin mugl...@gmail.com wrote: scott-mc:~ scott$ sudo port -d selfupdate Password: dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib, 10): no suitable image found. Did find:

Re: uninstall help please

2010-04-30 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter. Interesting enough I have always got and still get about 30 kb/s from

Re: molden for mac - help please

2008-08-04 Thread Jochen Küpper
Hi, thank for your messages. I am glad you got it working. One thing still strange: I still got a checksum inconsistency problem, that is, checksums are different between the portfile and the distfile fetched from the official molden website. I got around this problem by editing the