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 <[email protected]>: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
