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 <[email protected]>: > > what was the solution just in case? > J >> On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Jaime Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> thanks! Will do… >> J >>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:34 PM, hans w. koch <[email protected]> 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 <[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
