aven hangs on macos is started without a file

[Enrico Fratnik]

Dear all,

I am able to compile survex on OSX 11.2.3 with i7 processor [survex 1.2.44], unfortunately aven crash each time I try to star it (log attached)

Do you have any idea

Thank you

enrico

[Enrico Fratnik]

crash log

[Olly Betts]

Looks like it's got into an infinite recursion trying to create a font (or something font related), and the crash is probably when it runs out of stack space, but I don't have a good idea why.

Were you successfully running an older version of Survex before trying this one?

Are you building Survex via homebrew?

Also, you say 1.2.44 above, but the log seems to indicate 1.2.43 - is that just a typo above?

[Enrico Fratnik]

OPS, sorry, I have checked and the version is 1.2.43 (see log file).

The installation was done with homebrew but with the previous OS (Catalina 10.15.x) and everything works fine but after the update survex works fine except for aven.

[Olly Betts]

I'd suggest trying reinstalling the homebrew packages wxmac and then survex. Ideally a build with one OS version should continue to work with a later one, but I can see it might not always in practice.

[Enrico Fratnik]

I have tried to reinstall homebrew and upgrade survex to the last distribution but nothing change...

enricof@icts-enrico bin % cavern --version cavern - Survex 1.2.43

enricof@icts-enrico bin % brew tap survex/survex ​https://git.survex.com/homebrew-survex

enricof@icts-enrico bin % brew update

Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).

==> Updated Formulae

clojure-lsp goreleaser

openh264

enricof@icts-enrico bin % brew upgrade

enricof@icts-enrico bin % cavern --version

cavern - Survex 1.2.43

enricof@icts-enrico bin % brew install survex

Warning: survex/survex/survex 1.2.43 is already installed and up-to-date.

To reinstall 1.2.43, run:

brew reinstall survex

enricof@icts-enrico bin %

[Enrico Fratnik]

If can be useful, attached (aven-system-log.txt) you can find the line on system.log when I try to start aven

[Olly Betts]

	Apr 16 16:32:18 icts-enrico aven[9476]: objc[9476]: Class wxNSAppController is implemented in both /usr/local/Cellar/wxmac/3.0.5.1_1/lib/libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.0.0.5.0.dylib (0x107de8c50) and /usr/local/opt/wxmac/lib/libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.0.dylib (0x105854c50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

It looks like you have two different wxmac installs, and both are getting pulled in. Perhaps try deleting the one which isn't from homebrew? I'd guess the Cellar one if probably from homebrew, but not certain.

[Olly Betts]

Did you manage to resolve this?

[Pawczak]

I think the same scenario is on MacOS Monterey 12.1 (21C52).

After successful installation i cannot open the app. It's opening without any windows showing and status is "App is not responding".

Does your case indicates App crash or it's 'freezing' like i have?

[Pawczak]

Ok, this is funny one... When i try to Open Aven by opening App. It doesn't respond: can't click on any menus at the top bar, no window is shown.

I accidentally double clicked on .svx file which i process in my app (I work on Android app for presenting data and Data from Survex is on of the Data Formats which i work on).

Guess what... double clicking on .svx file is opening file and everything seems to be correct.

Maybe it will help resolving the issue.

[Olly Betts]

I don't have a Mac so it's hard for me to debug. I used to be able to borrow one for the weekend, but I don't think that's possible now.

So it really needs a developer on macos to poke at it.

[Pawczak]

I understand. I will try to get my logs from the App opening, but now (without having much time) i could not find anything.

[Olly Betts]

There's now a new Survex release and an updated homebrew package (notably it uses the newer homebrew wxwidgets package instead of the old wxmac package). Can you see if this helps?

[Olly Betts]

Enrico reported on the list that in 1.4.2 aven still hangs when starting without a file (but works when started with a file).

[Olly Betts]

I've retitled to make this specifically about the current hang on startup with a file.

The workaround seems to be to load a file to start aven (I guess by dragging it onto the aven icon, or by double clicking in the filer).

[Olly Betts]

Should be fixed in homebrew package 1.4.2_6.

If you're building from source and not using homebrew, it's fixed in git and the fix should be in 1.4.3.