On Jul 8, 2010, at 5:40 PM, John B Brown wrote:
> On 7/8/10 4:02 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:39 AM, John B Brown wrote:
>>> I'll stop getting entangled with functional anomalies in MacPorts. Any
>>> UNIX/Linux utilities I want I'll modify for myself to work on my iMac.
>>> There's a /usr/local here for a purpose; that's where the gnu utilities go
>>> automatically.
>>
>> I'm not sure why you are having so many issues with this. I believe in
>> reading over your thread you have done a completely new install of your OS.
>> If that is the case, and you are having these issues, the only thing I can
>> think of is you have corrupt installer discs, something is wrong with your
>> hardware, or your process is flawed. Perhaps you are migrating in an old
>> data file of ~/.profile or ~/.bash* or something that is causing troubles.
>
> Perhaps you misunderstand; there is NO migration of anything. I use the
> install discs that come with this computer. They replace the install data
> only, not my personal data; that is still there where I put it.
As mentioned above, MacPorts interacts with your personal data in the ~/.
files, which could maybe be causing you issues. I did not follow this thread
closely enough to recall all the specifics. I just get the general feeling
that a complete clean install and working your way up from there may not be a
bad idea.
>> I once spent many days brining online a G5 Dual CPU server to have issues in
>> which nothing was working right, no apps would build, lots of problems. It
>> turned out to be a bad CPU. I popped in a new CPU, and all my troubles went
>> away.
>
> I'd like very much to know how you managed that with Apple's warranty.
> In fact, if there are diagnostics available for the current Intel Core 2 Duo
> CPU on this iMac I would run it in a heartbeat.
As far as I know, every non retail installer disc that Apple ships has Apple
Hardware Test on it. A small hidden partition, or perhaps it is a hook into
the firmware, I'm not sure.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
It is not what I ended up using to determine on the dual G5 that one of my
CPU's was bad, it was simply trial and error. I pulled ram, put one back in,
removed it, put another back in, etc. Finally I got to the CPU's, pulled one,
borrowed a known good one from another machine, problems went away, at that
point, I knew what the issue was.
>> Far too many people are working with MacPorts in a perfectly reliably
>> fashion aside from known issues. Everyone at the least, has it installed,
>> which is where your system seems to be having trouble. I see no reason why
>> that can't be accomplished on your system, unless there are hardware issues,
>> software corruption, or silent data corruption problems.
>
> My current problems had better not have anything to do with MacPorts; I
> wiped all that stuff I could find. My problem is with Adobe Flash new dmg not
> running the graphics on Firefox.
When I ran the latest update from Apple, I had the same problems. I had to
reinstall Flash clean, which means deleting all the little bits it left laying
around in various places. Just reinstalling did not work, and I could not find
an uninstaller, nor do I believe it would get all the pieces.
> I know, not a MacPorts problem, except all these problems first arose
> when I installed MacPorts for the first time. I have made a couple of DVDs
> with my wanted data and am about to start the disc scrub.
It is where I would start for certain.
> But if you can point me at some accurate hardware diagnostics I would
> like that very much. Here's my numbers;
> Hardware UUID: 57C6C486-5B2B-5CC5-BC10-594951CDE5E6
Apple hardware test, and also memtester, which there is a port for, and I'm
sure someone here could build you a copy for your architecture. memtester will
take overnight to run to perform a good test if this is indeed hardware related.
You can also check your hard drive, which I have found that converting a DVD to
any other video format, jacking up the settings very high, will yield a good
CPU test, and also a great way to work your hard drive if you can set it to
render out a ridiculously large file.
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Scott (* For off-list contact, replace talklists@ with scott@ *)
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