Torkil Johnsen » osx http://www.torkiljohnsen.com My personal piece of cyberspace Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:18:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Issues after upgrading to OS X Lion http://www.torkiljohnsen.com/2011/07/21/issues-after-upgrading-to-os-x-lion/ http://www.torkiljohnsen.com/2011/07/21/issues-after-upgrading-to-os-x-lion/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:14:21 +0000 tj http://www.torkiljohnsen.com/?p=748 I ran into a few issues after upgrading to OS X Lion that I thought might be useful to share with others.

Table of contents

  1. VMware Fusion: Partition table has changed
  2. MAMP and OS X Lion
  3. NAS (Network Attached Storage) issues with AFP/remote Time Machine
  4. Lion install failed — Boot Camp issue
  5. More OS X Lion tips

1. VMware Fusion: Partition table has changed

I could not start up my Windows 7 boot camp partition after the upgrade. The error message I got was something like this:

Cannot open the disk ‘/Users/torkil/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/Boot Camp.vmwarevm/Boot Camp.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Reason: The partition table on the physical disk has changed since the disk was created. Remove the physical disk from the virtual machine, then add it again.

I found the solution to that issue on the VMware Fusion blog comments:

“That means to go into the Virtual Machine library and delete the entry. Then, create a new Bootcamp based VM. Your VM wouldnt be damaged as it is running bootcamp and just using that info. If that still doesnt work, boot using bootcamp itself.”

2. MAMP and OS X Lion

The popular MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) software needs to be version 2.0 for Lion compatibility. An upgrade is all it takes. See the MAMP download page.

3. NAS (Network Attached Storage) issues with AFP/remote Time Machine

I am trying to connect with AFP to a fileserver on our network at work. I am getting this error message after installing Lion:

There was a problem with trying to connect to the server. The version of the server you’re trying to connect to is not supported.

This is also a problem for people using TimeMachine to do backups to Synology’s file servers. The problem is that Synology’s firmware ships with an older version of Netatalk, not compatible with Lion. Synology already has a DSM 3.2 beta which fixes the problems for many people it seems. Synology has also said that they are releasing version 3.2 at the end of July 2011, and that this version will fix the problems.

Smallnetbuilder.com has an article on the topic, with a link to a workaround that Alexander Wilde has dug up. I have tested his solution now, and I can confirm that it works.

4. Lion install failed — Boot Camp issue

Max OS X can’t be installed on the disk Macintosh HD, because a recovery system can’t be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more.

I ran into this problem on my wife’s Macbook Pro. The help article on apple.com suggests I format the entire computer and reinstall Snow Leopard and then install Lion again. Seems like too much work, so I’m going to try another recipe:

  1. Download and install Winclone
  2. Make a backup of my Boot Camp partition on my OS X harddrive with Winclone
  3. Backup OS X to Time Machine
  4. Use Boot Camp assistant to remove the Windows partition
  5. Backup to Time Machine again (paranoid!)
  6. Install Lion, hopefully without problems
  7. Recreate the Boot Camp partition and use Winclone to recreate it like it used to be

Thanks to Macworld tip on Backup and restore Boot Camp partitions.

I’ll report back when I’ve tried this, and hopefully succeeded.

5. More OS X Lion tips

Here is some further reading:

Have you experienced any problems?

If you have found issues with other software after upgrading to OS X Lion, feel free to post it in the comments below.

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This is how I set up Phing to run on my local MAMP-based webserver. MAMP = Apache, MySQL and PHP, on a Mac, much like WAMP and LAMP for Windows and Linux respectively.

These are just very brief instructions, specifically on how I did this on my own system. A complete documentation on Phing can be found on at phing.info. You don’t actually need MAMP either, it was just what I was working with to begin with.

Open the application Terminal. You can find pear by doing a locate call: locate pear.
Currently MAMP requires you to install it into /Applications, so you should find pear (for php5) here: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/.
Make sure MAMP is using the correct php version, by starting MAMP and checking your preferences.

1: Go to the correct folder:
cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/

2: Make sure pear can locate the package:
./pear channel-discover pear.phing.info

3: Install phing:
./pear install phing/phing

Phing should now be installed. Run the command “ls -al” and you should see phing in the same folder as pear.

You can now run this command:
./phing -h
This will give you an overview of the phing’s options.

From here you can for instance just run:
./phing -f /path/to/your/build.xml

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