Bug 11 – launcher not workin in 7/28 build

Bug 11 - launcher not workin in 7/28 build


Summary:	launcher not workin in 7/28 build

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	ImageJ
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Launcher
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Macintosh Mac OS

Importance:	P1 blocker
Assigned To:	ImageJ Bugs Mailing List

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Reported:	2008-07-31 15:25 CDT by alexstets
Modified:	2015-04-06 15:44 CDT
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description alexstets 2008-07-31 15:25:58 CDT

Cannot start the fiji.app in 7/28 build under OS 10.3.9. Launcher starts up then shuts down right away.

Comment 1 Mark Longair 2008-07-31 16:24:55 CDT

Hi - could you try the following two things and send us the results?

(a) Try starting Fiji.app/Contents/MacOS/fiji-macosx from a Mac OS terminal and see if there's any output.  If there's a crash log, please attach it to a futher comment here.

(b) Have a look in the Mac OS console to see if there is any output there - similarly post it here if so.  (The console is in Applications / Utilities, if I recall correctly.)

many thanks,
mark

Comment 2 Johannes Schindelin 2008-07-31 17:56:10 CDT

I strongly suspect that this is a MacOSX 10.3 issue, as we compile Fiji for MacOSX 10.4 and later.  As far as I remember, the problem is that there is no Java5 or later available for MacOSX 10.3.

Just to test, can you please download http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/downloads/snapshots/fiji-macosx-10.3.dmg and try to launch it?

Comment 3 alexstets 2008-07-31 20:05:13 CDT

1. tried the console suggestions -> there is no console output when i run fiji
2. tried opening in terminal -> get a "Bus error"
3. tried that 10.3 download-> same issues, doesn't start.

Any other suggestions?

I really appreciate your work!

Comment 4 Johannes Schindelin 2008-07-31 20:57:24 CDT

Unfortunately, without ssh access to a 10.3 machine I will be not able to figure out what is going on...

Comment 5 Johannes Schindelin 2008-08-01 00:38:13 CDT

Well, seems like MacOSX 10.3 is stuck with Java 1.4 (AKA Java2).  Of course, it took me 15 minutes to find out what you could have done in half a minute.

So I fear we cannot support MacOSX 10.3, as we need Java 1.5 (AKA Java5).

Comment 6 Johannes Schindelin 2008-10-06 20:51:29 CDT

Okay, so I found Retrotranslator, which should allow us to go quite a way with OS X < 10.4...  Could you please retry with this temporary release?

http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/downloads/snapshots/fiji-macosx-10.3.dmg

Comment 7 Johannes Schindelin 2008-10-16 15:19:30 CDT

Okay, seems I am the only one who tested it.  It works here (with the notable exception of Java3D).