Re: [Summary-Talk] Mac OS X Summary 2.6.4 Error

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mac OS X, starting with Summary 2.6, Summary consists of two parts,
the GUI which displays the console window, and a background task which
does the log processing and displays reports.

  From what you describe it sounds like the GUI was crashing, leaving the
background task running. That would explain why your reports are
displaying as Summary 2.6.4, even through you now are running the 2.6.3 GUI.

I expect that if you quit the 2.6.3 GUI it will properly tell the 2.6.4
background task to exit, and the next time you launch the GUI it will
launch the 2.6.3 background task. Restarting the machine would also have
this effect, if quiting and running again isn't sufficient.

I am not sure why the GUI would be crashing. There were some small
changes to the GUI to properly support quitting from the dock in 2.6.4.
I wouldn't expect that very minor change to cause the problem you are
seeing, but who knows.

I would be interested to know if a clean install of Summary 2.6.4,
without your existing configuration and data, crashes or not?

Jason


Mark Jacobson wrote:
> 
> Then when I launched the Summary 2.6.4 program, it started to load and 
> then unexpectedly quit. This happened a couple times before I restarted 
> the server. After the restart the same error was encountered every time 
> we tried to run the Summary program.
> 
> So, I moved the config, data and logs folders back to the Summary 2.6.3
> directory and ran Summary 2.6.3. Everything loaded fine and then I went 
> to the browser interface to see if the reports were intact and I was 
> surprised to see the web interface reporting that we were running 
> Summary 2.6.4, even though we are using the Summary 2.6.3 program.
> 
> We are running Mac OS 10.2.8 on this system.

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