Fink

Hi - I installed Ghostscript & its fonts & xfree86-base-installed. If I try
to do a man gs I get a response of

And if I try to use it to open an eps postscript file I get an error that it
can not open the X display.
Example:
gs test01-plots.eps
AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 (2002-01-31)
Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
AFPL Ghostscript 7.04: Cannot open X display `(null)'.
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
>
What do I do now? Also why doesn't man gs work?
Do I need to install an  X window manager? If so which one.
I would really like to do something like

gs test01-plots.eps | lp

And have it print the file
-- 
TIA
Stanley Williams
sdw2512@...

Hi,

I installed vim-nox-6.1 via fink. But there are many new patches
available for vim. How can I apply these patches and build/install it
with fink. Is it possible?

Thanks,
	Dirk

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 07:46 AM, Jan Ruzicka wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You said something about faulty memory earlier, isn't it?
> Are you sure that the RAM is OK? Because the Bus Error can originate 
> from problem with RAM.
>
> I would think that the problem can show in unpredictable times as the 
> system allocates and deallocates the memory chunks dynamically.

I get similar errors trying to re-compile things in the kde area.  They 
seem more frequent now that I've installed the Developers kit from 
August: but this may be rubbish.

The instructions are to mail the error to Apple.  I've done that.  This 
would make me doubt that this is a memory issue ...  Whatever...

Hi,

You said something about faulty memory earlier, isn't it?
Are you sure that the RAM is OK? Because the Bus Error can originate 
from problem with RAM.

I would think that the problem can show in unpredictable times as the 
system allocates and deallocates the memory chunks dynamically.

Jan

On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 03:42 AM, David Orlovich wrote:

> OK well thanks for all the help - I really do appreciate it a lot.  I 
> won't have time to reinstall for the next day or so but will post a 
> followup when I do get it all to work.  Cheers!  David O.
>
> On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 09:25 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> David Orlovich wrote:
>>> hello again!
>>> I just discovered that when I had a failure to compile mozilla, 
>>> there was an entry added to cc1plus.crash.log (pasted below).
>>
>> Since this is a basic component of the c++ compiler, it really isn't 
>> supposed to crash.
>>
>>> I don't really understand what it means, but it looks like 
>>> KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE is the bad thing that is happening.
>>
>> This is only the symptom.
>>
>>> I am guessing that the command cc1plus is something to do with the 
>>> fact that the c++ compiler is what was running when it crashed...?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> So ... since I had just reinstalled the 10.2 SDK and updates, and 
>>> since I had checked/fixed the file permissions etc, that the problem 
>>> is something fundamental to the system and I should go ahead and 
>>> reinstall
>>
>> This is more and more looking like the thing to do, indeed.
>>
>>> ... or perhaps I can rebuild the kernel - I think I have 
>>> instructions to do that in one of my books...?
>>
>> I have never had the courage to do this on OSX (on linux this is the 
>> first thing to compile, in general). And the problem might not be the 
>> kernel, but some supporting libraries in /System.
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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Mat Rice wrote:
[]
> Gnome-ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome directory
> </Users/mat/.gnome/accels> - aborting
[]
> [Mat-Rices-Computer:/Users/mat/.gnome] mat# ls -al
> total 0
> drwx------   3 root  staff   102 Nov 15 12:03 .
> drwxr-xr-x  32 mat   staff  1088 Nov 17 18:01 ..
> drwx------   2 root  staff    68 Nov 15 12:03 accels  <------?

It's a permissions problem. ~/.gnome should be owned by you, not by 
root. Change the owner using 'chown':

   sudo chown -R mat ~/.gnome

-- 
Martin

Hi Everyone,

I upgraded to Jaguar several weeks ago, and to 10.2.2 ~ 1 week ago.  A 
few days ago, I upgraded my Fink installation to the unstable tree in 
hopes of better Jaguar compatibility (BTW, the thing I most wanted, 
plain old gnu-emacs 20.7-5, still gives me library errors at runtime.)  
I use the latest OroborOSX (0.8b2).

Roughly coincident with the Fink upgrade, I started experiencing a 
jumpy mouse cursor after the machine has been up for a while: annoying 
enough that it is difficult to work. This is not only when X has focus, 
but all the time, regardless of focus.  I look at CPU and memory 
utilization and it looks fine: otherwise the machine does not become 
slow (it is a Dual 800 with 768 MB RAM). Closing everything does not 
help, nor does logging out.  Rebooting puts it back to normal.    It 
does not appear to be in response to any particular action.  Indeed, it 
seems that after it has been sitting all day (or overnight), I'll sit 
down to do some work and find that the problem has reappeared.

I'm going to try not running X for a few days, and if that works, I'll 
try using a different window manager for a while to see if the problem 
is something in OroborOSX on 10.2.2/4.2.1.1.

Has anyone else noticed anything like this??

Best,
Tim Nelson
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory