Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of installing avahi?

2008-03-24 Thread nodje
Adam, you're great :) it worked. I actually had 'org.macports.dbus: Already loaded' when trying to load dbus. I didn't think restart it could solve the problem. Anyway I didn't know how to, thanks for the set of instruction. Let's see if this support a reboot. Paul, I had the message: 24/03/2

Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of installing avahi?

2008-03-24 Thread Adam Dershowitz
Are you sure about that? Because I had the identical set of errors a while back and I believe that relaunching dbus solved it. I think that avahi was trying to connect to dbus and failing because dbus was not running. But most of the errors that showed up were avahi errors. Do you get any

Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of installing avahi?

2008-03-24 Thread paul beard
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:53 PM, nodje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the tip Adam. > > but the dbus is already started in my case: > It's avahi-daemon that cannot start. > For some obscure reason, it cannot connect to dbus... > do you need it to? -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread skip
Ryan> Yes, just like Skip said: Ryan>sudo rm -r /Library/Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/Aquaterm Ryan>sudo port install aquaterm BTW, I ran into precisely these problems when migrating from my old PowerBook to my shiny new MacBook Pro. I naively assumed MacPorts was wholly co

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Alejandro Aragon
It's working now, you guys are the best! On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 20:37, Alejandro Aragon wrote: > >> On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Mar 24, 2008, at 20:23, Alejandro Aragon wrote: >>> On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:40 PM, [EMA

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 24, 2008, at 20:37, Alejandro Aragon wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Mar 24, 2008, at 20:23, Alejandro Aragon wrote: >> >>> On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Alejandro> garyw:~ aaragon$ sudo port install aquaterm -

Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of installing avahi?

2008-03-24 Thread nodje
thanks for the tip Adam. but the dbus is already started in my case: It's avahi-daemon that cannot start. For some obscure reason, it cannot connect to dbus... --nodje On 25 Mar 2008, at 1:28 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: I believe that this is the problem that I saw before. It seems that by

Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of

2008-03-24 Thread paul beard
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Adam Dershowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Nehemiah Dacres wrote: > > > why are you installing avahi?it already says on their Track that > > avahi is an implimentation of mDNS. having 2 of those on the same > > machine would clearly

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 24, 2008, at 20:23, Alejandro Aragon wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >>Alejandro> garyw:~ aaragon$ sudo port install aquaterm >>---> Activating aquaterm 1.0.1_0 >>Alejandro> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image >> error: /Librar

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread skip
Alejandro> I cannot do that, can I? Probably that framework is used by Alejandro> the system. Not necessarily. /Library/Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework on my Mac is dated March 7. I think MacPorts installed it: % grep /Library /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/relea

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Alejandro Aragon
I cannot do that, can I? Probably that framework is used by the system. aa On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Alejandro> garyw:~ aaragon$ sudo port install aquaterm >---> Activating aquaterm 1.0.1_0 >Alejandro> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image

Re: manually downloaded sources

2008-03-24 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 24, 2008, at 07:05, Сергей Карелин wrote: > How to port manually downloaded source tar-balls? It seems to be > very simple but I can't find out any information on this. > You can place downloaded tarballs into ${prefix}/var/macports/ distfiles/${name} where ${prefix} is usually /opt/lo

Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of

2008-03-24 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Nehemiah Dacres wrote: > why are you installing avahi?it already says on their Track that > avahi is an implimentation of mDNS. having 2 of those on the same > machine would clearly be a problem, simply use Bonjour. The Avahi > mac people will simply have to mak

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread skip
Alejandro> garyw:~ aaragon$ sudo port install aquaterm ---> Activating aquaterm 1.0.1_0 Alejandro> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/ Alejandro> Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/AquaTerm already exists and does not Alejandro> belong to a regi

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Alejandro Aragon
Well, gnuplot depends on aquaterm, but for some reason I don't have it in the system (I don't know why, I usually use the clean after I build the application). This is what it gives me when I try to install it: garyw:~ aaragon$ sudo port install aquaterm ---> Activating aquaterm 1.0.1_0 Error

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Rainer Müller
Alejandro Aragon wrote: > No, I don't. Does it make any difference? It is a native Cocoa terminal for gnuplot and my gnuplot installation seems to use it automatically. At least I never had to set terminal myself. Terminal type set to 'aqua' gnuplot> Also, aquaterm is a dependency of gnup

Re: Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of

2008-03-24 Thread Nehemiah Dacres
why are you installing avahi?it already says on their Track that avahi is an implimentation of mDNS. having 2 of those on the same machine would clearly be a problem, simply use Bonjour. The Avahi mac people will simply have to make their avahi damon work around Bonjour becasue removing bonjour wil

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Alejandro Aragon
No, I don't. Does it make any difference? aa On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > Alejandro Aragon wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I installed gnuplot the other day and then I tried to plot something >> and it didn't work. Then I figured that the installed gnuplot starts >> without a

Re: using an http proxy?

2008-03-24 Thread Rainer Müller
Bryan Blackburn wrote: > If you set the standard curl proxy environment variables (http_proxy, > FTP_PROXY, etc; see 'man curl'), this should get fetching of sources > to work through the proxy. According to ticket #13158 [1], you have to specify your proxy on the command line if using sudo,

Re: using an http proxy?

2008-03-24 Thread Bryan Blackburn
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Daniel Lord wrote: > My place of employment has everything locked down except for port 80 > so I have to use an http proxy. > I can use curl from the command line with the proxy option so I know > it should work for Macports, but a web search and the reading of the

Re: gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Rainer Müller
Alejandro Aragon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I installed gnuplot the other day and then I tried to plot something > and it didn't work. Then I figured that the installed gnuplot starts > without any terminal: > > Terminal type set to 'unknown' > > so if I choose a different terminal, like "set

Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of installing avahi?

2008-03-24 Thread Adam Dershowitz
I believe that this is the problem that I saw before. It seems that by default dbus doesn't run while avahi does. Just doing: sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist starts the dbus daemon and should allow avahi to connect to it properly. And, for anyone who might

Re: __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()

2008-03-24 Thread Kevin Walzer
Frank Schima wrote: > Hi all, > > > Another thread mentioned pydoc, so I decided to look at it and ran > 'pydoc modules'. Although it ran, it first returned a very strange > error (a number of times): > > The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation > functionality safely.

using an http proxy?

2008-03-24 Thread Daniel Lord
My place of employment has everything locked down except for port 80 so I have to use an http proxy. I can use curl from the command line with the proxy option so I know it should work for Macports, but a web search and the reading of the Macport Wiki, FAQ and other docs has not shown that Macports

__THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Schima
Hi all, Another thread mentioned pydoc, so I decided to look at it and ran 'pydoc modules'. Although it ran, it first returned a very strange error (a number of times): The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec(). Break on __THE_PRO

gnuplot not plotting

2008-03-24 Thread Alejandro Aragon
Hi everyone, I installed gnuplot the other day and then I tried to plot something and it didn't work. Then I figured that the installed gnuplot starts without any terminal: Terminal type set to 'unknown' so if I choose a different terminal, like "set terminal x11" then it plots fine. Is th

manually downloaded sources

2008-03-24 Thread Сергей Карелин
HI! How to port manually downloaded source tar-balls? It seems to be very simple but I can't find out any information on this. And something else. Installing from MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg without runninginternet connection result in error. This makes some inconvenience, because user have to define env

Re: is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of installing avahi?

2008-03-24 Thread nodje
thanks for the reply Paul. gives no hope though :( I've had this message for months. It's polluting my console log and probably consumes resources. As you say, some other applications need it. So it's not even possible to uninstall. ... On 24 Mar 2008, at 1:30 PM, paul beard wrote: On