Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Elwood,
thanks for trying to help. ?Yes, I am running xquartz; this all worked in the previous release. it broke with macOS Catalina 10.15.3
I am thinking to remove it all and rebuild from scratch,
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David Reed
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#3722
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Thanks for the suggestion, Elwood. ?For me:
% echo $DISPLAY
/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.nupkkTMJpP/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
%
% xephem
Building shell
Reading X resources
Checking
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SpikeLightfoot
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#3721
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
For what it's worth, for purposes here I don't think MacOS is much different than Linux, since it's BSD-based and there is a nice X11 distribution available to install seamlessly. ?Windows would be
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SpikeLightfoot
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#3720
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Have you checked your DISPLAY environment variable? On macOS the old favorite :0 does not work. At the moment mine is:
echo
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Elwood Downey
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
xephem could stand to have a network of maintainers to help it over
these problems as libraries and operating systems change over time. I
remember in Linux it took some time and fiddling because it
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ab1jx
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
I am seeing failure as well; I get the error message: "can't open display" twice; then it quits...
I tried rebuilding it which seemed successful, but same error.
I tried previous suggestions to no
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David Reed
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
MacPorts is MacOS release specific. In general with each release of MacOS, I¡¯ve had to update Xcode, and MacPorts. And as someone else pointed out, you want to make sure your XQuartz is up to
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Bruce Skelly
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Not so obvious to me! ?But I did reinstall and got the same result.
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SpikeLightfoot
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Just to eliminate the obvious, you did reinstall MacPorts, right?
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Bruce Skelly
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Thank you for the pointer. ?I've installed it and indeed it works well. ?Sometimes it's best not to try to solve a bunch of problems all at once!
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SpikeLightfoot
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Don't know what's in Macports but the XEphem.app within my original disk1 distro ( https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ ) is statically linked and still works fine on Catalina 10.15.3 with
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Elwood Downey
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
Unfortunately these tricks did not work for me. ?Thanks for the suggestions.
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SpikeLightfoot
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Re: XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
My best guess would be that the Catalina upgrade also upgraded some X11 libs (specifically libXt.6.dylib). I found the following post that while not related directly to XEphem, may provide a
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Rick Towns
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XEphem fails on MacOS 10.15.3 with Macports
After upgrading to Catalina, XEphem (installed via Macports) fails at runtime:
This does not appear to be a Macports problem strictly, as it compiles and installs properly.
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SpikeLightfoot
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#3709
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Re: Script Error when starting XEphem on MacOS
I circumvented the issue going a different installation path. I compiled xephem from the sources and followed those installation instructions.
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randolf0klein@...
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Re: Script Error when starting XEphem on MacOS
I doubt it since the path is only " /Applications/XEphem.app".
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randolf0klein@...
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Re: Script Error when starting XEphem on MacOS
Could the "path to me" thing contain any special characters
that would trigger some kind of Unicode mess in the process ?
--
fm
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dulle
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Script Error when starting XEphem on MacOS
Hi,
I was able to run XEphem on my Mac, but suddenly I get the following error message when starting it.
This normal starting script is suddenly causing the error.
Probably some new setting on my Mac
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randolf0klein@...
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Re: XEphem 3.7.7 live CD?
I don't use Windows, just little ARM machines like the Raspberry Pi. Which
runs XEphem fine, haven't tried it on a Zero. It was written back in 386
and 486 days, I think there's some Fortran in
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ab1jx
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Re: XEphem 3.7.7 live CD?
Hi Mathias,
Than you very much for your offer, if I can vote; KDE Plasma 5 please
Thank you
woeimun
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How Woei Mun
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