[caret-users] Caret keeps crashing on mac os

[David Van Essen]

Joe,

I don't know if you saw John Harwell's follow-up email, appended  
below, suggesting that Manish's problem was with an older version of  
OSX.  Since yours is more recent, there is evidently a different  
problem.  Unless other users have experienced this and found a  
solution, this will have to wait until John can look into it next  
week.  Sorry about that.

David VE

On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:36 PM, jwdubis at artsci.wustl.edu wrote:

> Caret users,
>
> As a Caret novice trying to work my way through the Quick Start
> tutorial, I ran into the same problem as Manish Dalwani.  Whether it
> was the file location drop down menu in the Choose Spec Dialog or the
> Model Selection Control drop down menu, any time a menu of this type
> was selected, Caret seized up and the program aborted itself.  I was
> operating using Mac OSX.4.11.  Please advise.
>
> Joe Dubis
>
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> On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:25 AM, John Harwell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I see you are running Mac OSX 10.3.9 and that is likely the problem.
>> On our Mac used for Caret development, the only two SDKs (software
>> development kits) are for OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.5.  We use the 10.4 SDK
>> so that Caret will run on OSX 10.4 and later operating systems.   
>> Apple
>> never guarantees backwards compatibility.  If you upgrade your
>> operating system, that will likely fix the problem.
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> John Harwell
>> john at brainvis.wustl.edu
>>
>> Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
>> Washington University School of Medicine
>> 660 S. Euclid Ave   Box 8108
>> Saint Louis, MO 63110
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Manish Dalwani wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dr. Harwell,
>>>
>>> The mac version is 10.3.9.
>>>
>>> It is the drop-down option to "look into file" or to "select a
>>> particular file type", etc. So it's not the menu ...but let's say I
>>> have to open the spec file and then I try to browse that's when it
>>> gives me a wait sign and crashes. The error message if I run caret5
>>> on command line is
>>>
>>> ./caret5:line8: 512 Bus error $directory/../macosx_apps/caret5.app/
>>> Contents/MacOS/caret5 $*
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>> Manish
>>>
>>> --- On Tue, 7/15/08, John Harwell <john at brainvis.wustl.edu> wrote:
>>> From: John Harwell <john at brainvis.wustl.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [caret-users] caret keeps crashing on mac os
>>> To: manishdalwani at yahoo.com, "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software
>>> users" <caret-users at brainvis.wustl.edu>
>>> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 1:59 PM
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "drop down option"?  Do you mean the menus?
>>> Please be specific.
>>>
>>> Which version of OSX are you running (10.?.?,  select Apple Menu-
>>>> About this Mac)?
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------
>>> John Harwell
>>> john at brainvis.wustl.edu
>>>
>>> Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
>>> Washington University School of Medicine
>>> 660 S. Euclid Ave   Box 8108
>>> Saint Louis, MO 63110
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 15, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Manish Dalwani wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Caret users,
>>>>
>>>> I recently installed the caret 5.6 on a mac os. I unzip the package
>>>> and then installed it using ./install-sh and I even created a icon
>>>> on the doc. It opens fine and is even able to open a spec file but
>>>> when I try to use the drop down option (let's say to select files  
>>>> or
>>>> browse
>>> folders) it crashes. I have tried reinstalling it and it
>>>> still keeps crashing.
>>>>
>>>> Kindly advise!!!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Manish Dalwani
>>>> Sr.PRA
>>>> Dept. of Psychiatry
>>>> University of Colorado
>>>