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JosephDuchesne
Errors on starting processing/Mac OS X
Dec 15th, 2005, 11:35pm  
Whenever I start processing I get these errors:

Code:

java.io.IOException: Permission denied
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1314)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1402)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1439)
at processing.app.Base.getTempFolder(Base.java:331)
at processing.app.Base.getBuildFolder(Base.java:315)
at processing.app.Sketch.<init>(Sketch.java:123)
at processing.app.Editor.handleOpen2(Editor.java:1504)
at processing.app.Editor.handleNew2(Editor.java:1358)
at processing.app.Editor.restorePreferences(Editor.java:396)
at processing.app.Base.<init>(Base.java:129)
at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:101)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:88)
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:50)
at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.launch(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:52)
apple.awt.EventQueueExceptionHandler Caught Throwable : java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at processing.app.Base.removeDescendants(Base.java:836)
at processing.app.Sketch.cleanup(Sketch.java:1167)
at processing.app.Editor.doClose(Editor.java:1226)
at processing.app.Editor.handleOpen(Editor.java:1390)
at processing.app.Sketchbook$3.actionPerformed(Sketchbook.java:441)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1819)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1872)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:321)
at apple.laf.ScreenMenuItem.actionPerformed(ScreenMenuItem.java:104)
at java.awt.MenuItem.processActionEvent(MenuItem.java:589)
at java.awt.MenuItem.processEvent(MenuItem.java:548)
at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEventImpl(MenuComponent.java:285)
at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEvent(MenuComponent.java:273)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:482)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:234)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:178)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:170)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:100)
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fry
Re: Errors on starting processing/Mac OS X
Reply #1 - Dec 16th, 2005, 12:18am  
are you using a version earlier than 0094 in a lab environment, or have you been running it with a second user account?

or have you done something to remove your temporary directory?
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JosephDuchesne
Re: Errors on starting processing/Mac OS X
Reply #2 - Dec 16th, 2005, 1:55am  
I'm running under the admin user on a mac that was wiped less than two weeks ago, and now has a new install of 10.4.3. All of the software is updated. The only thing I've done on this computer since it was working was install Adobe Photoshop CS 2 demo, which did not work and hence I have deleted it.

The problem first occured in Processing 0.98. I then deleted the processing folder and prefs and redownloaded 0.98. After that failed with the same problem I deleted it again and tried 0.97. I believe something is wrong with Java itself, somehow.
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fry
Re: Errors on starting processing/Mac OS X
Reply #3 - Dec 16th, 2005, 9:03pm  
yeah, basically it's complaining that it can't write to your temporary directory (i don't recall whether it's /tmp or what). as with all osx issues, maybe try fixing permissions? also make sure you're not using the java 1.5 as your default vm, just in case.
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JosephDuchesne
Re: Errors on starting processing/Mac OS X
Reply #4 - Dec 16th, 2005, 10:55pm  
The problem has been fixed Smiley Thanks fry. It turns out that it was the /tmp folder's permissions. I fixed it by pressing apple-shift-g(go to folder) then apple-i (get info, of the folder because nothing was selected). I then changed everything to the equivelent of 777 (I suppose it would have been faster to do a sudo chmod deal but I wasn't really expecting it to work). Oddly enough I noted two com.adobe plist files. I am going to file a bug report to adobe.
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fry
Re: Errors on starting processing/Mac OS X
Reply #5 - Dec 18th, 2005, 3:02am  
k, closing thread.
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