Entries from February 2008 ↓

I had another problem that I forgot to mention. When I tired to install Leopard, the disc would just keep ejecting after a few seconds and it would never mount. I consulted a Mac forum which told me that many people have had this problem. I tried every bizarre method the suggested which included inserting the disc while your computer was upside down. I was half expecting the next post to tell me to pull out my disc and blow in the slot while moving my mouth in a side-to-side, fan-like fashion. The only thing that worked for me was installing and using this program. I am starting to think that I shouldn’t have done this.

As a member of ADC, you usually get all the new operating systems sent to you in the mail. I have had a copy of Leopard on my coffee table since it’s release. I finally broke down and decided to install it after a friend told me it wasn’t so bad. The problem is that I really didn’t want to back everything up so I did and upgrade. As I suspected, there are a host of problems. The first one I have managed to solve is the Terminal.app problem. When you open up Terminal, it opens X11. Also, X11 takes multiple clicks to close. After I opened up Terminal, for the 3rd time, I ran the ‘ps’ command. There were 2 different X11 daemons running. Well, that solved the problem with X11 not closing properly, but why were they there? After checking out ‘~/.bash_profile’ on both my machines, I noticed this line that shouldn’t have been there.

test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh

After taking that line out, Everything worked properly. I still can’t figure out why it was there.