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 List-Post: gretl-users@gretlml.univpm.it 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
