Bob, You ran the betas. On issues like this, that could be a big difference. So Im not sure it is yet an issue that could be user dependent.
Best, Kasper On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:00 PM Bob Rudis <b...@rud.is> wrote: > I've been running Catalina since the first beta and upgraded to GM the day > of release. Apart from having to stick R things into Full Disk Access I've > had no issues with R nor XQuartz. > > I read through the links provided and, while I do have said symlink in the > relocated items folder Apple creates (this is new behavior for the GM), it > gets re-created fine for me & XQuartz works fine (and the minor pkg deps I > have installed that use it also work fine. > > This would appear to be a YMMV situation. > > -Bob > > > On Oct 8, 2019, at 4:19 PM, Luis Puerto <luiss.pue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Best, Kasper [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
