still can't get gimp to work under macports....

[Ian Wadham]

On 07/05/2012, at 9:56 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On May 6, 2012, at 18:39, Brad Allison wrote:
>> I installed gimp using
>> 
>> $ sudo port install gimp +no_startupitem
>> 
>> Per the workaround instructions on the current bug thread.  But when I try to launch it it takes FOREVER to load.  It gives me a "not enough memory" error and then just sits there forever.

I did that too.  Everything built OK and ran for a while, but then I shut down
my machine ...  Now nothing that involves dbus will run (e.g. no KDE or Qt apps).
I guess +no_startupitem means "I don't want to start dbus when I start my machine."

> "sudo port selfupdate" to make sure you have the latest port definitions in which the recent dbus problems were resolved. Then "sudo port install dbus" to reinstall dbus with its default variants (i.e. not using the +no_startupitem variant). Then follow the instructions it will print for loading dbus-session. Then programs like gimp that use dbus should work.

I did "sudo port -v self update" ( I hope this got the patch OK), then "sudo port install dbus",
which produced the attached log, but now I have:

Tara:~>port notes dbus
dbus has the following notes:
  ############################################################################
  # Startup items have been generated that will aid in
  # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled
  # by default. Execute the following command to start them,
  # and to cause them to launch at startup:
  #
  # sudo launchctl load -w
  /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
  # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
  ############################################################################
Tara:~>ll /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
ls: /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist: No such file or directory
Tara:~>ll /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
ls: /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist: No such file or directory

The files I used to use to start dbus have disappeared some time in the last day or so … :-(

So how do I get back to where I was before I did "port selfupdate" to macports 2.0.4 yesterday
and struck the "Unable to open port: can't read "startupitem.install"" bug?

Cheers, Ian W.