<div dir="auto">Ehi Dave,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Did you try to launch the binary from the terminal and see which errors it spits out? </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, 10:07 Dave Horsfall, <<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org">dave@horsfall.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">No replies? Am I the only person on the planet having this problem?<br>
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It's not confined to Gnuplot, but pretty much anything that wants to save <br>
a modified file, such as TextEdit (such as my prescriptions, which for me <br>
is pretty much a matter of life and death).<br>
<br>
I note that this crap only started happening after last Monday's weekly <br>
update; up until then, my MacBook had performed flawlessly... Could the <br>
perp responsible please raise their hand?<br>
<br>
Should I back out that flawed update (if I can remember how) and stop <br>
doing any further updates until I am assured that they will actually work <br>
i.e. they were actually tested? For some reason the Therac-25 (look it <br>
up; it's the story of an untested software update that went horribly <br>
wrong) springs to mind...<br>
<br>
What can I do to provide more information? Whoever in Cupertino is <br>
receiving the crash reports when I abort the hung processes must be <br>
getting pretty sick of them by now, and that's not looking too good for <br>
MacPorts...<br>
<br>
Excuse my attitude, but after nearly 50 years in the IT game (probably <br>
longer than most people on this list have been alive) I've never seen <br>
anything like this.<br>
<br>
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Dave Horsfall wrote:<br>
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> MacBook Pro (early) with Sierra (all updates); can't be more precise than <br>
> that because "About This Mac" is no longer displaying anything (SMC reset <br>
> required?) since a reboot, but that's not my immediate problem.<br>
><br>
> Gnuplot Version 5.2 patchlevel 8 last modified 2019-12-01<br>
><br>
> When trying to save a graph (any graph) I get as far as "Save As" and I get <br>
> the dreaded spinning beachball instead of the file selection; I've waited up <br>
> to an hour before killing it by doing in AquaTerm. This started happening <br>
> after my Monday "port upgrade outdated", so I'm guessing that I now have a <br>
> bad library somewhere as a result of the upgrade? There were a few library <br>
> updates, as I recall...<br>
><br>
> I'm trying to figure out whether this is a Mac/Gnuplot problem or a user <br>
> error, so I'm wondering whether others have seen this before I report it as a <br>
> possible Gnuplot bug (but I can't see how it could be, because it wasn't <br>
> touched as such).<br>
><br>
> Thanks (and yeah, I have a few outstanding replies to follow up)<br>
><br>
> -- Dave<br>
><br>
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-- Dave<br>
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