[OS X Emacs] Re: ? How to install Aquamacs-Emacs-1.9.dmg ?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Am 12.02.2010, 18:08 Uhr, schrieb David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com>:
> Aquamacs 1.9 runs fine on Tiger; I have just tested it, and I know that  
> we have a sizable number of 10.4 users running Aquamacs 1.9.

Good to know that, thank you very much for answering!

> Such problems can occur when either the download was faulty or  
> incomplete, or when the .app was incompletely copied somewhere on the  
> hard drive before starting it.

I downloaded and opened (doubleclicked) the Aquamacs-Emacs-1.9.dmg again.
Inside, it looks fairly complete to me.

I tried to copy it to the Mac /Applications directory first by putting it  
on the link to it within the opend .dmg without seeing a result. So I put  
by holding the pointer directly to the /Applications directory. And it  
copied thereto.

But doubleclicking it gave no reaction, again.

I opened the .dmg again, this time I looked it by choosing in the Finder  
the opend Aquamacs Emacs "disc" (below Macintosh HD), with the icon view  
with in the middle the Aquacacs Emacs icon on the left, the Applications  
(folder) link at the right, in between the finger/hand pointing the folder  
link (below written "To install, drag the Aquamacs to your Applications  
folder or elseware") I dragged it to the Applications folder link - it  
copied again for a while, closed the .dmg "disc" and tried again  
doubleclicking the "Aquamacs Emacs.app" in the Applications folder.

No visable reaction.

I tried it in the Terminal by:

$ ./Aquamacs\ Emacs.app/
-bash: ./Aquamacs Emacs.app/: is a directory

The more (though knowing that this would not go) I did let me "show  
content" and in the folder
/Applications/Aquamacs\ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/
doubleclicked on the "Aquamacs Emacs" exec with the terminal answer:
----------------------
localhost:/Applications/Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS joachim$  
/Applications/Aquamacs\ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs\ Emacs; exit
No fonts match `-*-monaco-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-mac-roman'
logout
[Prozess beendet]
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You further wrote:
> Otherwise, a look inside the log file using Console.app (provided with  
> OS X, in /Applications/Utilities or "Dienstprogramme") should reveal any  
> pertinent error messages.

I called the Konsole window. My problem is, that I don't get wise by the  
thousends lines, not even do I know, in which of the hundreds log files to  
look.

Could you please specify a little bit for me ignorant?

Any other hint how I should proceed?

joachim


PS: The last messages in the system.log are:

Feb 12 19:00:13 localhost crashdump[1024]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:00:13 localhost crashdump[1024]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:05:13 localhost crashdump[1029]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:05:14 localhost crashdump[1029]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:10:13 localhost crashdump[1059]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:10:13 localhost crashdump[1059]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log

and later:

Feb 12 19:15:13 localhost crashdump[1066]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:15:13 localhost crashdump[1066]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:20:13 localhost crashdump[1087]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:20:13 localhost crashdump[1087]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:25:13 localhost crashdump[1092]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:25:13 localhost crashdump[1092]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:29:46 localhost crashdump[1098]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:29:46 localhost crashdump[1098]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:29:50 localhost crashdump[1102]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:29:50 localhost crashdump[1102]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:30:13 localhost crashdump[1107]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:30:13 localhost crashdump[1107]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log
Feb 12 19:35:13 localhost crashdump[1124]: smbd crashed
Feb 12 19:35:13 localhost crashdump[1124]: crash report written to:  
/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/smbd.crash.log


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