[Gretl-users] gretl 1.9.5/CVS on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Hello all,
Is anyone using current gretl on OS X 10.7? I've had a report
today that gretl crashes on start-up, and I don't know if this
is a generic problem or a misconfiguration issue. I'm
appending the correspondence I've had on this point
(backwards, I'm afraid).
Allin Cottrell
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:31:59 +0100
From: Abhijit Sharma <sharmaabhijit(a)gmail.com>
To: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
Subject: Re: Gretl 1.9.5 on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion
Thanks for your response. I have tried a number of things
including installing the current gretl snapshot but the
Segmentation fault: 11 message seems to persist.
Thanks in advance but it seems that something is stopping
Gretl from launching - x11 launches gretl tries to start but
then it aborts.
On 3 Oct 2011, at 14:01, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Abhijit Sharma wrote:
> I am a great fan and supporter of your excellent
> econometrics software, Gretl, which I recommend to both UG
> and PG students at the Bradford University School of
> Management.
Glad you like it!
> I am writing to you with a quick query. I have recently
> upgraded to Mac OSX Lion (10.7). Unfortunately Gretl 1.9.5
> does not seem to work any more. X11 is invoked and Gretl
> launches and then it soon crashes. Since my students use
> Gretl it is important for me to have a irking copy as well.
>
> Following your instructions I typed the following in
> Terminal and got this output:
>
> Macintosh-8:bin abhijitsharma$ cd /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin
> Macintosh-8:bin abhijitsharma$ ./gretl
> Couldn't read /Users/abhijitsharma/.gretl2rc
> Segmentation fault: 11
Hmm, the "Couldn't read /Users/abhijitsharma/.gretl2rc"
shouldn't be a problem on a first-time launch of gretl. But
the segmentation fault obviously is a problem. Could you try
the current gretl snapshot (i.e. the file gretl-intel.dmg.gz
at http://gretl.sourceforge.net/osx.html ) and see if that
build has the same problem?
The snapshot is close to being gretl 1.9.6, which we plan to
release shortly.
Thanks,
Allin Cottrell