[PD] strange crash with patch on OSX

altern altern2 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 22:01:45 CET 2006


ok,

now i get this in the console, any ideas?

xxx:~ xx$
/Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -stderr
/Users/xx/ixi/pd/autoloop/autoloop.pd
set it

------------------------------------------------
py/pyext 0.2.1pre - python script objects
(C)2002-2005 Thomas Grill - http://grrrr.org/ext

using Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)]
------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------
xsample objects, version 0.3.1

   xrecord~, xplay~, xgroove~
   (C)2001-2005 Thomas Grill
-------------------------------
  xsample
... couldn't create
Pd: signal 4
closing audio...
closing MIDI...
... done.
pd_gui: pd process exited






Hans-Christoph Steiner(e)k dio:
> 
> Right, I forgot you need to have Wish Shell.app installed to run pd from 
> the command line on Mac OS X.  You can either install this:
> 
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcltkaqua/TclTkAqua-8.4.9.dmg?download
> 
> or open Pd, go to Preferences -> Startup... and add -stderr to the 
> startup flags.
> 
> Then you can view the Pd output by running 
> /Applications/Utilities/Console.app.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Feb 17, 2006, at 7:10 AM, altern wrote:
> 
>> It didnt do anything or post any error, just command not found if i
>> remember well, this is why i tried sudo
>>
>> I have installed the latest updates for this version of OSX (10.3.9) 
>> just in case there was something wrong.
>>
>> i tried again now, i copy from the mac console output
>>
>> xx$ /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd 
>> -stderr
>> set it
>> sh: line 1: /Applications/Wish Shell.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish Shell : No
>> such file or directory
>>
>> and stays there, i need to do control+Z to stop de process
>> weird isnt it? And i havent even tried opening the patch that causes the
>> crash
>>
>> I try now with latest millers distro, 0.39-2
>> well ... funny, it does work, just the two externals I use are missing 
>> (xsample and pyext).
>> I copy the externals from your distro into millers.
>> I get some weird errors I didnt get before coming from the xsample 
>> object but it does not crash and pyext runs fine.
>>
>> I try now with command line.
>> Pd-0.39-2 runs ok, yours did the same as i described above.
>> xx$ /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd 
>> -stderr
>> set it
>> sh: line 1: /Applications/Wish Shell.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish Shell : No
>> such file or directory
>>
>>
>>> You don't need sudo.
>>> It should be the actual path to your Pd.app, you either not using RC7 
>>> or you don't have it installed into /Applications
>>> .  This part will be the same:
>>>  Contents/Resources/bin/pd
>>> .hc
>>> On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:25 AM, altern wrote:
>>>> mmm .. it says :
>>>>
>>>> xx$ sudo 
>>>> /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extendedRC7/Contents/Resources/bin/pd 
>>>> -stderr : command not found
>>>>
>>>> it is really weird crash, i never had something like this before. I 
>>>> might have to go and do step by step debugging. quite annoying.
>>>>
>>>> thanks hans
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner(e)k dio:
>>>>> You should try running Pd from the command line with the -stderr 
>>>>> flag, then you'll see the error message:
>>>>> /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extendedRC7/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -stderr
>>>>> .hc
>>>>> On Feb 14, 2006, at 11:23 AM, altern wrote:
>>>>>> hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently i moved to an old ibook, installed the syste same as in 
>>>>>> the old computer which was btw a one year old powerbook, the only 
>>>>>> thing i didnt install was the apple devel cdrom.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now i find that an old patch that worked fine in my old machine 
>>>>>> crashes pd while gets loaded. I get no error message.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The funny problem seems to happen when i call from the main patch 
>>>>>> an abstraction i use to play samples. This one uses xsample and 
>>>>>> the main patch uses pyext. But both externals seem to work fine 
>>>>>> when i use them in a other patches.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i am really confused by this. I cannot imagine what it is that 
>>>>>> causes the crash. This happens with both latest versions of hans 
>>>>>> Pd installers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> any tips?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- enrike
>>>>>>
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>>
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