gross error

[John B Brown]

On 7/8/10 4:02 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:39 AM, John B Brown wrote:
>> 	I'll stop getting entangled with functional anomalies in MacPorts. Any UNIX/Linux utilities I want I'll modify for myself to work on my iMac. There's a /usr/local here for a purpose; that's where the gnu utilities go automatically.
>
> I'm not sure why you are having so many issues with this.  I believe in reading over your thread you have done a completely new install of your OS.  If that is the case, and you are having these issues, the only thing I can think of is you have corrupt installer discs, something is wrong with your hardware, or your process is flawed.  Perhaps you are migrating in an old data file of ~/.profile or ~/.bash* or something that is causing troubles.
>

	Perhaps you misunderstand; there is NO migration of anything. I use the 
install discs that come with this computer. They replace the install 
data only, not my personal data; that is still there where I put it.

> I once spent many days brining online a G5 Dual CPU server to have issues in which nothing was working right, no apps would build, lots of problems.  It turned out to be a bad CPU.  I popped in a new CPU, and all my troubles went away.
>

	I'd like very much to know how you managed that with Apple's warranty. 
In fact, if there are diagnostics available for the current Intel Core 2 
Duo CPU on this iMac I would run it in a heartbeat.

> If you are game, I would suggest the following, as MacPorts truly does make things easier, not harder:
>      1) Backup
>      2) Erase hard drive
>      3) Reinstall OS clean
>      4) Perform Apple Software Update, do not use the combo updaters
>         unless you verify MD5's on them and ensure you are using the correct one
>      5) Install Developer tools, just one package, with X11
>      6) Run Apple Software Update again
>      7) Install MacPorts
>      8) Run sudo port selfupdate
>      9) If everything now works, install a few simple ports to double check
>      10) Move your data back in place, testing along the way to make sure nothing breaks
>
> Far too many people are working with MacPorts in a perfectly reliably fashion aside from known issues.  Everyone at the least, has it installed, which is where your system seems to be having trouble.  I see no reason why that can't be accomplished on your system, unless there are hardware issues, software corruption, or silent data corruption problems.
>

	My current problems had better not have anything to do with MacPorts; I 
wiped all that stuff I could find. My problem is with Adobe Flash new 
dmg not running the graphics on Firefox.

	I know, not a MacPorts problem, except all these problems first arose 
when I installed MacPorts for the first time. I have made a couple of 
DVDs with my wanted data and am about to start the disc scrub.

	But if you can point me at some accurate hardware diagnostics I would 
like that very much. Here's my numbers;
Hardware UUID:	57C6C486-5B2B-5CC5-BC10-594951CDE5E6

	Shalom,

	John B. Brown.
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