Back in Machttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/12/21/backInMac101422007-12-21T16:25:55-05:00$Date$NormanWalsh2007Norman WalshMy Mac's back (sortof). Next time I have to do the reinstall dance, these notes
will help.Apple claims
my
problems were user error, not hardware error, i.e., they went away
after they reinstalled the OS. I'm not convinced, but what can I do. (There's a
longer story involving unrecoverable filesystem errors and multiple
iterations of the reinstall dance, but I'll spare you; if I touched
something electronic this week, it probably broke.)How to rebuild your Mac environment…
Reinstall the OS. Run Software Update. Repeat until
it says it's done. Restore all your backup data. Merge your old home directory
into the new one that the install created. (Next time I might create an admin user
just for the purpose of avoiding this step.)Install X Code so that you have
development tools. Install X11; for some
inexpliciable, non-obvious, and hard to find instructions for reason,
this involves control-clicking on the Install Bundled Software
Only icon on the install DVD,
selecting Show Original, and
then clicking on the X11User.pkg.
Install MacPorts. Use MacPorts to install
(at least)
wget,
msmtp,
mercurial,
subversion, and gnupg.
Install a recent python distribution.Install PyXML (yes, I know there are
better
things, but I have legacy…)Download and install expat.
Do the perl -MCPAN -e shell shuffle to install
XML::Parser, XML::XPath, and
RPC::XML.
In System Preferences→Sharing
enable Personal Web Sharing and
Remote Login.
Figure out what version of Apache is actually
part of the OS. Get the sources for that version. Build that version with
the right suexec parameters:./configure \
"--with-layout=Darwin" \
"--enable-suexec" \
"--suexec-caller=www" \
"--suexec-docroot=/home" \
"--suexec-gidmin=20" \
"--suexec-logfile=/var/log/httpd/suexec_log" \
"$@"Move src/support/suexec into
/usr/sbin and chmod
it 4555. Restart Apache.
Check the error log to make sure it worked.
Install
Adium,
Adobe Reader,
Caffeine,
Canon i9900 printer drivers,
Carbon Emacs,
Chicken of the VNC,
Disk Inventory,
Epson CX3200 printer drivers,
Firefox,
GIMP,
GoogleEarth,
Growl,
gSync,
HuginOSX,
iMovieHD6,
Inkscape,
iRedLite,
Last.fm,
Lightroom,
MarcoPolo,
MenuCalendarClock,
MenuMeters,
Netbeans,
Open Office,
Oxygen,
Quicksilver,
SSHKeychain,
Skim,
SuperDuper!,
VMware Fusion,
X-Chat Aqua, and
Zoom.
[Update: 3 Jan 2007] Use MacPorts to install
links,
p5-libxml-perl, and
p5-image-info. For Sun employees only: reinstall and
reconfigure punchin. (Seems like it ought to be possible to use the old
configuration, but it didn't work for me.)
Get tidy from http://tidy.sf.net/, build it,
and install it in /usr/bin/.
[Update: 4 Jan 2007] Use MacPorts to install
p5-digest-md5.
Cross your fingers and run Disk Utility again.
P.S. I got another kernel panic while preparing this essay.
Sigh. No panic.log this time. I'm at my wits end,
but one thing's for sure, I'll be needing these instructions again all
too soon.