Ben, I am pleased to learn that MacPyMOL does in fact work over NFS! We're obviously subject to reporter bias in terms of hearing mostly about problems, not working solutions, but this certainly didn't work for us previously (on Panther perhaps? Well before Leopard...)
Rereading your emails more carefully, I think I understand now what you're angling at: remote command-line use of MacPyMOL. That shouldn't work... Instead, you need a pure X11-based build of PyMOL. We haven't provided those in the past (aside from ipymol), but I recently posted a couple of builds for 1.2 beta 0: http://delsci.com/ip/12/beta/ pymol-1_2b0-bin-osx-x86-x11-tiger.tgz - or - pymol-1_2b0-bin-osx-ppc-x11-tiger.tgz There are "pure" linux-like PyMOL builds for Mac OS X / X11. Cheers, Warren > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Eisenbraun [mailto:b...@crystal.harvard.edu] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:14 AM > To: Warren DeLano > Cc: PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Command line mode on OS X 10.4 vs 10.5 > > Hi Warren, > > > MacPyMOL has always had problems running off of a remote NFS drive -- > > we've never been able to figure out why, but it is clearly something to > > do with the magic behind Apple's application bundles, since ordinary X11 > > builds run just fine. > > Interesting. We've been using it installed on an NFS volume for several > years now, and searching our ticket database didn't find any PyMOL issues > that looked related to the network volume. That said, I have definitely > seen oddities on Macs with our set up, although I suspect some of that is > caused by the case-sensitivity issue more than anything else. > > > The workaround is to copy the MacPyMOL bundle onto a local drive (/tmp?) > > before running it. Can you have your user try that? > > I tried this, but got the same error. > > $ /tmp/test/PyMOLX11Hybrid.app/Contents/MacOS/MacPyMOL -qc > _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the > WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL. > > -ben > > -- > Ben Eisenbraun > Structural Biology Grid Harvard Medical School > http://sbgrid.org http://hms.harvard.edu > > >
