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Re: [Skim-app-users] open -a Skim
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From: Samuel C. <sc...@ma...> - 2010-08-26 01:45:53
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Christiaan was right; it was there and deleting it worked. Thank you both very much for your time. I learned something from the process, too. Sam On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 18:26, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...> wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2010, at 0:15, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > >> That's a Launch Services problem, I think. Is that where Sparkle unarchives updates (NSTemporaryDirectory())? >> > > Yes, this is indeed the location where Sparkle stores the temporary copy (including the "Skim 54 Update" part). > >> A simple way to make LS update is to move Skim.app to some other folder in Finder, then move it back. If that doesn't work, you either have multiple versions around, or need to use lsregister. >> > > Given that it says the file or directory does not exist, it seems that in fact Sparkle did its job and cleaned up this temporary copy, but LS did not do its job and did not clean up its reference. Therefore it does seem to be a corrupt LS database. You may get more detailed instructions to rebuild here <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486>. > > Of course another (and related) known problem is that the open command is very bad at finding apps. It does not follow the general rules about which version of an app to open and often takes the wrong one, apparently including non-exisiting ones. > > Christiaan > > >> On Aug 25, 2010, at 15:01, Samuel Coskey wrote: >> >>> Logs (thanks for looking!): >>> >>> 25/08/2010 17:59:37 com.apple.launchd[90] >>> ([0x0-0xa44a44].net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim[16597]) >>> posix_spawnp("/var/folders/7I/7Iw8EApeEX0tx04lGT4o2k+++TI/-Tmp-/Skim >>> 54 Update/778E0535-8F21-4707-A39D-2B667658B990/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim", >>> ...): No such file or directory >>> 25/08/2010 17:59:37 com.apple.launchd[90] >>> ([0x0-0xa44a44].net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim[16597]) Exited with exit >>> code: 1 >>> 25/08/2010 17:59:39 quicklookd[16598] [QL ERROR] >>> /private/var/folders/7I/7Iw8EApeEX0tx04lGT4o2k+++TI/-Tmp-/Skim 54 >>> Update/778E0535-8F21-4707-A39D-2B667658B990/Skim.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/Skim.qlgenerator/ >>> has no identifier: ignoring >>> >>> >>> I don't use any non-english language, just the Dvorak keyboard layout. >>> >>> Thanks again, >>> >>> Sam >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 17:37, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...> wrote: >>>> Any logs in Console.app? And do you have a non-english language set? >>>> >>>> Christiaan >>>> >>>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 23:22, Samuel Coskey wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks! But I only get the error with Skim, and I don't have a mouse... >>>>> Sam >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 17:09, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 22:45, Samuel Coskey wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> The command: >>>>>>> open -a Skim >>>>>>> gives the error: >>>>>>> LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed with error -10810 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have the latest OS 10.5. A search reveals that people have gotten >>>>>>> this with other applications. Some suggest to repair permissions, >>>>>>> which I have done. Others suggest that the application may not be >>>>>>> "10.5-proof". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any ideas? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sam >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> This seems to be a recurring problem of the open command on 10.5.x. Skim is 10.5 proof (the only thing is that it seems to trigger a Leopard PPC PDFKit bug, but that cannot cause this). Some people seem to have traced this problem to a bug in Microsoft IntelliPoint Mouse Driver software, e.g. <http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=467307>. >>>>>> >>>>>> Christiaan >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>> Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program >>>>>> Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users >>>>>> worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and >>>>>> speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. >>>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Skim-app-users mailing list >>>>>> Ski...@li... >>>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program >>>>> Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users >>>>> worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and >>>>> speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. >>>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Skim-app-users mailing list >>>>> Ski...@li... >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program >>>> Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users >>>> worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and >>>> speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Skim-app-users mailing list >>>> Ski...@li... >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program >>> Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users >>> worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and >>> speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Skim-app-users mailing list >>> Ski...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program >> Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users >> worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and >> speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Skim-app-users mailing list >> Ski...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program > Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users > worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and > speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Ski...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > |