Mathematica starts badly 1 time over 5 in OSX
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From: Jason Ledbetter on 29 Mar 2010 06:21 The frustrating thing is that this issue has been known about for some time and hasn't been fixed. I find it unacceptable for basic functionality (like expecting the software to work when it is first started after a reboot) to be relegated to some future major software release. I'm in a position to be purchasing webMathematica as a delivery platform for a project I'm working on and really question Wolfram's ability to support/bugfix their product in dot releases if I were to run into issues since they don't seem to want to fix their bread and butter product. </end rant> -jbl On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:11 AM, David Reiss <dbreiss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 26, 6:35 am, Nicola Mingotti <n-no-mingo...(a)g-spam-mail.com> > wrote: > > Helo, > > > > I'm using Mathematica 7.0.1 for students in OSX 10.6.2 > > and it works really nice ... when it starts. > > > I believe that this is a known bug. Mathematica exhibits this > behavior typically after a system reboot in the current version of > OSX. If one reboots, and then starts Mathematica, there is no response > to a computation. If one quits that mathematica session and then > restarts Mathematica there is no problem -- and there generally is no > such problem again until one reboots OSX. > > I assume that this is fixed in the next version of Mathematica... I > am sure that john Fultz could comment. > > --David > > > > The problem is that sometimes when i run Mathematica > > the kernel doesn't start well and i have to restart, i can't even > > do a single computation. > > > > This happens one time every 4-5 run of the program. > > After a crash, at the second run, Mathematica has always started well. > > This behaviour has been observed at least 20 times since now. > > > > Does anyone else have this problem ? > > > > Thank you > > > > Nicola > > >
From: Fred Klingener on 30 Mar 2010 05:59 On Mar 29, 6:21 am, Jason Ledbetter <jasonbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The frustrating thing is that this issue has been known about for some time > and hasn't been fixed. I find it unacceptable for basic functionality (like > expecting the software to work when it is first started after a reboot) to > be relegated to some future major software release. .... I've had persistent intermittent problems w/ Mathematica 7.0.1/OSX 10.6.2 that present in a variety of ways, but booting isn't one of them. The simplest to test and to describe is an inability to run Mathematica- >AboutMathematica...->SystemInformation. So the root probably lies somewhere in the Java train. Other more subtle and more maddening symptoms include failure to load and run some notebook files written using earlier versions. For a time, I corresponded with TS, and we tried many things, but I finally gave up. I've developed simple (but tedious) ways to recover and refresh old files, but I've burrowed in to wait for new versions of Mathematica or OSX that will fix the problem. I'm retired, so my time is technically worthless, but if I had money to make, deadlines to meet, or clients with veins standing out on their foreheads, I would have had to abandon Mathematica long ago. Hth, but probably doesn't, Fred Klingener
From: Nicola Mingotti on 1 Apr 2010 07:02 Sorry, the previous mail started by mistake. Thank you for all your suggestions. My case is the one decribed by David Reiss, I hope they fix this bug because it's a little boring. - I've already tried to reinstall Mathematica ... nothing happens, same behaviour. - I don't want to reinstall the whole os ! This is not an option. - In Mathematica starts that don't execute any single command even the Documentation Center doesn't run. And vice versa: when the first thing i try to do is opening the documentation center and it doesn't work then it means that no commands will run in the notebook ... i need to restart Mathematica. Thanks bye n.
From: Nicola Mingotti on 14 Apr 2010 23:40
I think the problem has been fixed somehow, it's a week that mathematica starts well. Probabily it's OSX update ... or Wolfram updated my Mathematica without telling me. bye n. On 2010-04-01 13:02:43 +0200, Nicola Mingotti said: > Sorry, the previous mail started by mistake. > Thank you for all your suggestions. > My case is the one decribed by David Reiss, I hope > they fix this bug because it's a little boring. > > - I've already tried to reinstall Mathematica ... nothing happens, same > behaviour. > - I don't want to reinstall the whole os ! This is not an option. > - In Mathematica starts that don't execute any single command even the > Documentation Center doesn't run. And vice versa: when the first thing > i try to do is opening the documentation center and it doesn't work > then it means that no commands will run in the notebook ... i need to > restart Mathematica. > > Thanks > > bye > > n. |