(see below- everything's ok now)
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Alexander Hansen <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:48 PM, James Martin wrote:
>
> Hello,
> My original problem is described below.I followed the advice to open a
> terminal, hit Control-C, and then run fink selfupdate. It told me everything
> was up-to-date, so I then ran fink update-all. I saw that some of my dbus
> packages were updated, and my terminal now runs fine. But in order to run
> Gnu Solfege, I need to be able to launch X Windows (it's a GUI program), and
> I still can't. If I type "solfege" in the terminal, it opens Python 2.5 and
> hangs. If I click on the X11 icon, it bounces forever.
>
> What is my next step?
>
> Thank you,
>
> James
>
>
> What do you mean "opens Python 2.5" ? On my system running solfege opens
> X11 if it isn't already running, opens a splash window, and then opens its
> own window.
>
Somehow this wasn't happening; the top of the terminal read "Python 2.5,"
which I assume refers to the running process. But after restart,
everything's fine.
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:01 PM, James Martin <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I have a week-old MacBook with OS X version 10.5.4. I installed Fink and
>> it seemed to be working fine; I was able to install and run Gnu Solfege. But
>> now when I open a terminal, I never get a command prompt. My terminal says
>> this:
>> Terminal - dbus-launch - 80x24
>>
>> Last login: Mon Sep 1 21:35:23 on ttys000
>> ps: Invalid (zero-length) process id
>>
>> If I quit the terminal, it says that the processes I'll be killing are
>> "login, bash, bash, sh, dbus-launch"
>>
>> If I double-click on the X11 icon, that also never finishes launching (the
>> icon bounces forever).
>>
>> I'm not sure what changed to cause this. I installed a new printer, an HP
>> Photosmart C4480, and then uninstalled it to see if it would fix the
>> problem, but it hasn't. I don't know nearly enough UNIX to troubleshoot
>> this. Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> James
>>
>>
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