[GAP Forum] GAP not working on Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later

[Sandeep Murthy]

Hello.

Thanks for all messages.

I have corrected this problem.

Sincerely, Sandeep.

On 4 Feb 2010, at 23:22, Stephen Linton wrote:

> I've taken this off the forum, since it seems to be a very specialised problem.
> 
> ggp is working for me, on Mac OS 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard).
> 
> I think the killer issue is 
> 
>> 16/12/2009 19:21:34	[0x0-0x33033].net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap[262]	*** Critical: could not create directory ' "/Volumes/sandeepmurthy/Library/Application Support/ggap" ' 
> 
> I'm not sure why it's trying to do this. On my system there is 
> 
> /Users/sal/Library/Application Support/ggap
> 
> but nothing in /Volumes/MacBook/Library/Application Support
> 
> Maybe the simplest thing to try would be to uninstall and reinstall ggap?
> 
> 	Steve
> 
> On 4 Feb 2010, at 16:02, Sandeep Murthy wrote:
> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> Since the Leopard update to the Mac OS X
>> last year, the Mac version of GAP doesn't
>> seem to work.  I've raised this with Alexander
>> Hulpke, but I keep having the same problem.
>> The possibility was raised that it had to do with
>> file permissions on the folder where GAP was
>> installed, but I've checked the file permissions
>> and there seems to be no restriction.
>> 
>> These are lines from the console from the last
>> time I tried to run GAP
>> 
>> ------------------------
>> 
>> 16/12/2009 19:21:18	[0x0-0x33033].net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap[262]	D: SettingsPrefs "/Users/sandeepmurthy/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap.plist" 
>> 16/12/2009 19:21:18	[0x0-0x33033].net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap[262]	D: SettingsState "/Users/sandeepmurthy/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap-state.plist" 
>> 16/12/2009 19:21:34	[0x0-0x33033].net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap[262]	D: ini file '/Volumes/sandeepmurthy/Library/Application Support/ggap/workspace.ini' does not exist
>> 16/12/2009 19:21:34	[0x0-0x33033].net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap[262]	*** Critical: could not create directory ' "/Volumes/sandeepmurthy/Library/Application Support/ggap" ' 
>> 16/12/2009 19:21:46	com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[98]	([0x0-0x33033].net.sourceforge.ggap.ggap[262]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap
>> 16/12/2009 19:21:47	ReportCrash[265]	Saved crash report for ggap[262] version 1.9.6 (1.9.6) to /Users/sandeepmurthy/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ggap_2009-12-16-192147_sandeep-murthys-macbook.crash
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---------------------------
>> 
>> Would appreciate some help, and I'm unable to
>> run GAP directly.
>> 
>> Sincerely, Sandeep.
>> 
>> 
>> Sandeep Murthy
>> Ph. D. Student
>> Computing & Mathematical Sciences
>> Room C.202C
>> School of Technology
>> Oxford Brookes University
>> Wheatley, Oxfordshire OX33 1HX
>> United Kingdom
>> 
>> Ph: (01865) 485605
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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