On 27/07/12 00:33, Daniel Johnson wrote: > I just wanted to document some things I noticed during my Mountain Lion > upgrade. > > First, when running "fink reinstall fink", and any fink commands in fact, I > get a spew of dialogs telling me to get XQuartz and install it manually. Not > a big deal, but there are a lot of dialogs in rapid succession which is > mildly annoying. I gather this is from VirtPackage.pm checking for the > presence of x11, which happens multiple times when fink is run. Installing > XQuartz makes it stop. :) > > Next I got repeated messages about not being able to create the fink-bld > user. It seems that the Mountain Lion installer wipes out all the > fink-installed users. To fix this I needed to run "fink configure" and select > "Y" when it asks to create UIDs dynamically. Related to that, I had to > reinstall my previously installed passwd-* packages to get those users back.
Apple is, as usual, very inventive with their bugs. The problem is that the OS upgrade wipes out the Fink-created users, but not the groups. Thus there remains GID 266, which fink interprets as "ID 266 already in use", and it refuses to create user fink-bld with UID 266, proposes to create UIDs dynamically instead. You end up with fink-bld UID:600, GID:266. Fink could perhaps be smarter about this. > I was then able to "fink reinstall fink" and "fink install perl5123-core" to > get my existing fink up and running. > > I did have an issue with X11. First, I needed to run > /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app manually to use x11 packages. Then when I > tried running fontforge, I had missing text and a bunch of warnings about > pango. After some experimentation, I found that rebuilding gtk+2-shlibs fixed > my text issues. Fontforge seems to work fine, but that's all I really tested. > I don't have much x11 software installed at the moment. I don't have qt4-x11 > installed, though qt4-mac works fine. scribus-x11, which uses qt4-x11, works OK (built on 10.7, run on 10.8). The good news is that if you follow the instructions given by fink and Apple (including logout/login after installing XQuartz), things seem to work out correctly. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
