Headless problems

[James Sentman]

I’m trying to figure out how running as a different user could make the window be empty. It definitely could keep it from writing to disk, but the window should still populate and indeed you should probably have seen extra log lines with it complaining about being unable to write to the disk. Permissions are a black art indeed.

I’ve run several mini’s completely headless without any HDMI plugs or other things on them at all and they have all worked fine. I know back in the bad old days of classic I had to get an apple to VGA adaptor to make those systems claim to have a screen size to share over VNC or timbuktu, but I dont THINK thats absolutely necessary. Once you’re done with the initial setup of the machine you can just unplug it from the monitor and it should continue to work. Or maybe I’m just lucky because I didn’t know any better ;)

for alternate ways to view the log, you could always to a tail -f the log file and it would then be readable in a terminal session. If you have it set to RTF format though it will have garbage control characters that you’ll have to ignore. I don’t have an option to send the log output to syslog, though I could certainly do that if I thought there was some value to it. The OSX system logs are so full of garbage and constant errors all the time even when everything is working great I’d be hard pressed to see just the XTension lines in there without doing filtering.

I hope your knees heal quickly! Consider all this climbing a little more physical therapy ;) Don’t overdo it!




> On Apr 25, 2016, at 10:59 PM, Mike Andrews <mikea0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I figured it out. 
> 
> I set up a new Admin user to run Xtension,  different from the account I used to install it. 
> It's a permission problem. 
> I know better. 
> Nevah make too many changes at once.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.   ¦-{) 
> 
> I have to crawl up one more time to fix the CM11s.   I figured out that the RJ jack is flaky. 
> 
> It hurts because I'm healing from knee surgery.   Once more for the Gipper. 
> 
> 

Thanks,
 James


James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com




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