Articles tagged with mac os x

  1. [MacPorts] upgrade gnutls failed

    Posted on in System Administration

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    I ran into this issue while trying to install wine-devel on my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro running El Capitan and MacPorts 2.3.4. As the install progressed, here is the error I got:

    Error: org.macports.build for port glib2 returned: command execution failed
    Please see the log file …
  2. [OS X] Disable IPv6 Address Privacy

    Posted on in Networking

    For those that are really into privacy, the Privacy Extensions defined in RFC 4941 are a really good thing. This extension circumvents SLAAC and has the result of randomizing your IPv6 address. Like I said, if privacy is a big deal for you, this is definitely something you want enabled …

  3. El Capitan Leads to More DNS Woes

    Posted on in System Administration

    For whatever reason, Apple really likes messing with how I use DNS.

    I've written many, many, many times about having to modify OS X's DNS functionality to append search domains when a hostname includes a dot. Every single time I upgrade, this change is broken.

    Previously, the workaround had been …

  4. Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license...

    Posted on in Programming

    Sometimes this pops up when you least expect it:

    Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.
    

    This morning, I went to refresh one of my git repo's for work, and make spit that out. What the heck happened last night? Anyway, the …

  5. Goodbye, discoveryd. Hello again, mDNSResponder.

    Posted on in System Administration

    Great!

    Once again, Apple has made a change in how DNS is handled in Mac OS X. Originally, Yosemite (10.10) had replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd. This meant that all of those who had made a change to force mDNSResponder to always append search domains to DNS lookups had to …

  6. Mac OS X Not Using Search Domains

    Posted on in System Administration

    Every time I restart my OS X Mountain Lion (10.9) laptop, it stops using the DNS search domains I've added via the Network preferences pane. I have found that restarting mDNSResponder fixes this issue. There are two ways to do this.

    The first is a simple restart by sending …

  7. Finder Crashing Every Minute

    Posted on in System Administration

    Thanks to an error report from one of my backup jobs, I noticed that /Users/slap/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports was filling up with Finder crash reports (files of the type *.crash). These files were being created once a minute. Additionally, icons on my Desktop were blinking once a minute.

    Upon …

  8. OS X CLI: Install VirtualBox

    Posted on in System Administration

    I decided the other night to begin doing some testing using my headless Mac Mini. I use VirtualBox for all my testing on my Mac OS X systems. Since the Mini is headless, I decided now was as a good a time as any to start using VirtualBox via the …

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