[Openmcl-devel] Weird bug

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On Dec 12, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Ron Garret wrote:

> I don't think that's the problem I'm having:
>
> [ron at mickey:~/.MacOSX]$ more environment.plist
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple
> .
> com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
>         <key>CVS_RSH</key>
>         <string>ssh</string>
>         <key>SSH_AUTH_SOCK</key>
>         <string>/tmp/501/SSHKeychain.socket</string>
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>
> </dict>
> </plist>
> [ron at mickey:~/.MacOSX]$

If this file doesn't exist when terminal tries to start a shell you  
may experience the same bug I reported. I.e., Terminal.app doesn't  
handle discrepancies between the current state of the file system and  
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist very well.


Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro at mac.com