[Ifeffit] Demeter on Mac OS X

Fri Jun 6 14:08:02 CDT 2014

There was a recent update of XCode (5.1.1), which could be a suspect
(depending on when you installed it) and might have broken some dependency?
 (I don't know what the Demeter port depends on.)  E.g. it might update
some of the libraries/compilers used in demeter (I'm not sure), and
sometimes the command line tools need to be reinstalled to restore
softlinks etc.  The error message you see might be related to a changed c
runtime library or something (just guessing).

I tried a clean install of demeter today and I can open Athena properly.

Have you tried reinstalling demeter?  This is always a good thing to try.

- Use "port" to remove demeter and dependencies.
- Reinstall XCode command line tools ("xcode-select --install") if you
haven't already.
- sudo port install demeter

Cheers,

Kevin

PS It's clearly harmless but I get a couple of these warnings:

~% /opt/local/bin/athena

2014-06-06 11:50:01.909 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got
font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:01.909 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note: Set
a breakpoint on CTFontLogSuboptimalRequest to debug.

2014-06-06 11:50:01.989 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got
font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:02.040 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got
font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:02.085 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got
font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:02.091 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got
font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:02.096 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got
font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:02.404 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name ".Lucida Grande UI" and got
font with PostScript name ".LucidaGrandeUI". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:02.407 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name ".Lucida Grande UI" and got
font with PostScript name ".LucidaGrandeUI". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

2014-06-06 11:50:03.202 perl5.16[31186:303] CoreText performance note:
Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got
font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use
PostScript names when calling this API.

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On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Schima, Frank <frank.schima at nist.gov>
wrote:

>
>  On Jun 6, 2014, at 7:11 AM, Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov> wrote:
>
> On 06/05/2014 06:09 AM, Juliana Fonseca de Lima wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have used Athena on my Mac since last month, but from last week I have
> had the below problem to open the software. Could you help me to solve
> that?
>
>
> perl5.16(423,0x7fff75854310) malloc: ***
> mach_vm_map(size=18446744071562072064) failed (error code=3)
>
> *** error: can't allocate region
>
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>
> Out of memory!
>
>
> PS: I have 8 GB of physical memory.
>
>
> Juliana,
>
> I suspect the reason no one has answered your post is that you have not
> provided much information to work with.  /Something/ must have happened to
> your computer in the last week.  Did you do a system update?  Did you
> install new software?  Perhaps a block of RAM went bad -- you could run a
> hardware test to find out.  (That happened recently on one of my laptops.)
>
> The bottom line is that I cannot see any way to diagnose the problem
> simply on the basis of the information provided.  That Athena worked one
> day and not the next suggests something changed on your computer.
>
>
> Agreed. I can tell you that all of the programs launch fine for me on OS X
> 10.9.3 and 10.8.5 using the latest Demeter port in Macports. I would
> suggest making sure you are up to date in Macports:
>
>  sudo port selfupdate
> sudo port upgrade outdated
>
>
>  Cheers!
> Frank
>
>
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