Re: GUI - start?

[Alexander Hansen]

> On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:39 PM, jkr <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I had this working just two days ago.  I didn't try to use it yesterday. 
> Today there was a Mac OS X update to Command Line Tools and another to X
> Code.  Now, the gui won't start.  Entering:
> 
> /sw/bin/octave-3.8.2 --force-gui
> 
> results in only a command line interface.  The title bar says:
> "octave-cli-3.8.2".  
> 
> I can find both octave-3.8.2 and octave-cli-3.8.2 in /sw/bin - they are not
> the same thing, and neither has changed in the last two days.
> 
> I don't know of anything that I have changed that should have affected this
> installation.  
> 
> 1. What could possibly have gone wrong?
> 2. How can I justify spending another minute on getting this balky thing to
> work?
> 
> 
> 
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1) Maybe try logging out and back in again.  Maybe there’s a stale process 
which is blocking the GUI from starting.
Also, it might be possible that you have a bad preference file—I’ve experienced 
issues with those on various vintages of Mac OS for about 20 years. 
Unfortunately, I don’t happen to know right off the top of my head where the 
GUI puts that.  Someone else here should know.

2) That’s strictly up to you to decide.  
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison