<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK.<div>I figured out my issue with Scilab.</div><div>For an unknown reason, a symbolic link to Java 1.5 was missing in the System folder.</div><div>I made it in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/ to refer to 1.5.0.</div><div>Voila!</div><div>Scilab now starts!</div><div><br></div><div>I guess it doesn't matter whether the symlink is set to 1.5 or 1.6 because it is set to 1.6.0 in my student's computer on which Scilab launched without a trouble.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the comments!</div><div><br></div><div>Miso</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 12, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>If you could send me a copy, it would be indeed helpful.<br>Anyway, could you try to start "Preferences Java" and put the Java SE 6<br>on the top of the list ?<br><br>We did some minor changes here and since Apple has it own way of<br>managing new releases, this might be a cause...<br><br>Sylvestre<br><br>Le mardi 11 mai 2010 à 19:09 -0400, Hiroaki Misono a écrit :<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Sylvestre, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When I opened Scilab from Terminal, identical symptoms occurred (dock<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">icon bouncing and hanging there until force-quit).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I didn't get any error messages.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Though when I force-quitted Scilab, an error report (to be sent to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Apple) shows up.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Let me know if you want a copy of it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">While I was waiting for Scilab to start-up (well, it didn't at the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">end), there was a line showed up in Console saying "Error checking<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">symlink for the target jvm"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">By the way, I have tried Scilab 5.2.1 (and its nightly builds) and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">5.2.2, and nothing has worked so far.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have installed java SE 1.4, 5.0, and 6.0 and played with Java<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Preference, but no luck.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Now I can see that some people have the same or similar issue.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hope you can find a workaround.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Miso<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">P.S. I use Scilab on Windows XP (on Parallels) and love it. I would<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">love it more if I can run it natively on Mac because it is very slow<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on the emulator.....<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On May 11, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Le mardi 11 mai 2010 à 18:31 -0400, Hiroaki Misono a écrit :<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I have been trying to run Scilab-5.2 on a Macbook with OS X<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">10.6.3.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">When I launched it, the icon showed up in the Dock and bounced for<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">a<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">while.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Then it stopped and nothing happened afterwards.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I had to force quit to remove it fro the Dock.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">My student has a Macbook Pro with the same OS, and somehow Scilab<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">runs<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">on hers?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Could anyone help me to figure out what I am missing here?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">What happens when you start Scilab from a terminal ? Do you get any<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">error message ?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">We have a few errors reports about Scilab 5.2.2 under Mac OS X<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">10.6.3<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">but we haven't been able to reproduce it. So any information which<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">might<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">help are most welcome!<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Sylvestre<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Miso<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(Hiroaki Misono)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Assistant Professor<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Department of Neural and Pain Science<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Program in Neuroscience<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">University of Maryland Baltimore<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mail to: 650 W. Baltimore St.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Rm 8-South Dental Building<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Baltimore, MD 21201<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tel: 410-706-7168 (office), 410-706-6547 (lab)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Fax: 410-706-0865<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://neuroscience.umaryland.edu/Pages/faculty_profile.aspx?ID=315">http://neuroscience.umaryland.edu/Pages/faculty_profile.aspx?ID=315</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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