<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for bearing with me!<div class="">The VM itself seems to be working, though it hasn’t installed properly at /usr/local/bin/Self and doesn’t appear to be properly run from Self Control.app</div><div class="">I updated my MacBook to the latest MacOS and I’m getting a new one time warning about running 32 bit apps, so I wonder if that is relevant.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s try doing the command line installation manually:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In bash, please do (‘>’ is bash prompt, don’t type it :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> ln -s /Applications/Self\ Control.app/Contents/Resources/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/Self /usr/local/bin/Self</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">now test by doing:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> ls /usr/local/bin/Self</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(system should print: ls /usr/local/bin/Self)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> Self</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">you should see the VM starting up as below, when you get the Self prompt, '<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">VM#</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""> ‘ then enter _Quit, ie</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">VM# _Quit</font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">this should take you back to bash. Now cd to your directory with the snapshots and try running them:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">> cd /path/to/your/snapshotsDir</font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">> Self -s morphic.snap</font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">this should bring up a morphic window as well as the Self prompt. enter _Quit as before to quit, or choose Quit from the desktop menu (right click somewhere in the open Self window)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">Now, assuming all this worked (!), problem would seem to be the Self Control.app. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">Russell</font></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Apr 2018, at 5:43 am, <a href="mailto:itsnotgregg@gmail.com" class="">itsnotgregg@gmail.com</a> [self-interest] <<a href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com" class="">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; position: relative;" class=""><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;" class=""><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold;">ok i wasn't sure if i was supposed to quit and then run the second command so here it is in the reple:</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Last login: Thu Apr 26 09:59:30 on ttys000</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Greggs-MBP:~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://greggarthurevansgmail.com/" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;" class="">greggarthurevansgmail.com</a>$ /Applications/Self\ Control.app/Contents/Resources/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/Self</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Self Virtual Machine Version 2017.1/13, Tue 16 May 17 10:41:07 Mac OS X i386 (4.5.0-205-gd942ba2-dirty)</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Copyright 1989-2016 AUTHORS (type _Credits for credits)</span></p><p class="p2" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"></span><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">for I386:<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>LogVMMessages = true</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">for I386:<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>PrintScriptName<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>= true</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">for I386:<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Inline = true</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">for I386:<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>SICDeferUncommonBranches = false (not implemented)</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">for I386:<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>SICReplaceOnStack = false (not implemented)</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">for I386:<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>SaveOutgoingArgumentsOfPatchedFrames = true</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">VM# ls -al /usr/local/bin/Self</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>^</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Self VM error: no precedence for binary operator - please use parentheses on line 1, character 12</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>^</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Self VM error: unexpected token on line 1, character 13</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">VM#<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"></span><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></p><p class="p2" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold;" class="">and here it is after I quit the reple:</span></p><p class="p2" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Greggs-MBP:~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://greggarthurevansgmail.com/" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;" class="">greggarthurevansgmail.com</a>$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/Self</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">ls: /usr/local/bin/Self: No such file or directory</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold;">I guess it was the latter you wanted.</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold;">I don't see an attachment you sent me. And will need a more detailed set of instructions as to what to do with it but I am certainly willing too. </span></p><p class="p2" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></p><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 0px;" class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>