Thanks a lot for the heads up! Cheers! Luis
> On 8 Oct 2019, at 22:49, Marc Schwartz via R-SIG-Mac > <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Perhaps I missed something relevant along the way someplace, but I ran the > upgrade to Catalina (10.15) last night. I wanted to give folks a heads up on > an issue that you may face, especially if you have XQuartz installed > alongside R. > > One of the sequelae of the upgrade is that some files may get relocated > during the upgrade, likely in part due to the macOS SIP. > > In my case, this involved the symlink for XQuartz, 'usr/X11R6', which gets > placed into a "Relocated Items" folder on the Desktop. That folder, which is > actually an alias to /Users/Shared, contains a folder tree with: > Security/usr/X11R6. Naively, after seeing this, I elected to move the entire > folder to the Trash. > > That led me into a cycle of trying to figure out how to then delete that > folder tree from the Trash, as I would get various OS errors in the course of > doing so. > > That led me to some Google searches, with incremental attempts at solutions, > but eventually landing on the following thread in the Apple Community forums: > > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250712783 > > After the first review of the thread there, and before user 'faikbey' posted > a possible solution using Recovery Mode, I filed an Issue on the XQuartz > github repo here: > > https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/1 > > It would seem that, at some level, one workaround would be to uninstall > XQuartz fully before the Catalina upgrade, but there is no uninstall program > provided by them. There is a series of CLI commands in a github gist here: > > > https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/d127873e24cef159d4d603accaf37ee4#file-gistfile1-txt > > which appears to work, but would likely be best used prior to the Catalina > upgrade, and then re-install XQuartz after the upgrade is complete. > > The solution to the problem posted by 'faikbey' in the Apple forum appears to > work in the original scenario, albeit, as I noted in my reply in that thread, > I needed to first mount the user volume in Recovery Mode using Disk Utility, > before I could proceed with the additional steps of deleting the files from > the Trash, then rebooting into normal mode. > > If anyone else has experienced this and knows of an alternative/better > solution, let us know. > > Otherwise, let's see what the XQuartz folks might come up with on this, as > this was not an issue with prior macOS upgrades. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
