[PD] Pd not running on OS X 10.11.4 and 10.11.6

hans w. koch hansw.koch at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 03:00:15 CEST 2016


from finder navigate to /private/etc/  and open the file „hosts" 
there you should see a line 
127.0.0.1	localhost

if its not there, it has been quite likely tampered with and that line has to be reinsterted with a sudo enabled textedit.
(look at your own host file, thats presumably healthy)

h

> Am 13.09.2016 um 02:42 schrieb Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com>:
> 
> what was the solution just in case?
> J
>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> thanks! Will do…
>> J
>>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:34 PM, hans w. koch <hansw.koch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> even if its a bit intrusive, maybe ask the student, if he has installed a cracked version of adobe software.
>>> i have had students with similar problems and it turned out, that they had applied the adobe hack wrongly and killed their localhost.
>>> 
>>> it was well worth the embarrassement…after fixing pd did run and they could still use their adobe whatever.
>>> 
>>> hth 
>>> hans
>>> 
>>>> Am 12.09.2016 um 22:46 schrieb Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> This is what happens if we try to run it from the terminal :
>>>> 
>>>> 172-16-17-82:bin jonasberry$ ./pd -verbose
>>>> Pd-0.47.1 ("") compiled 15:29:55 Jun 18 2016
>>>> port 5400
>>>> "../../MacOS/Pd" 5400
>>>> Waiting for connection request... 
>>>> WARNING: connect to pd failed, retrying port localhost:5400.
>>>> WARNING: connect to pd failed, retrying port localhost:5400.
>>>> WARNING: connect to pd failed, retrying port localhost:5400.
>>>> 
>>>> etc….
>>>> 
>>>> WARNING: connect to pd failed, retrying port localhost:5400.
>>>> ^CPd: signal 2
>>>> sys_guisock 0 - closing audio...
>>>> closing MIDI...
>>>> ... done.
>>>> 
>>>> 172-16-17-82:bin jonasberry$ 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> A student cannot get to run Pd in OS X 10.11.4 and 10.11.6.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When one clicks on the Pd app it briefly shows up the icon in the open applications, but then quickly disappears. This happens with the latest as well as previous versions of Pd Vanilla. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone having the same problem?
>>>>> 
>>>>> best,
>>>>> 
>>>>> J
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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