Re: Headless on Mac OS X

Hi Everyone, Ok, I looked briefly at the Pharo VM source but it didn't seem nearly as easy to build as the Squeak one. So I gave up on it for the moment. I decided to try a Squeak VM with a Squeak developer image that already had Pier on it (albeit an older version... but that should be upgradeable...). I'm able to double click and get it to launch and then confirm in my web browser that Pier is alive and well. Unfortunately when I try to do it from the command line it appears to hang. No errors, warnings, etc. But I can't access Pier through my web browser. It certainly appears that it "halfway" started up. When I try to do it from launchctl it keeps aborting and after 10 tries gives up. The console looks like this: Aug 1 21:57:51 Super-Lan-Boy sudo: recurve : TTY=ttyp2 ; PWD=/ Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load / Library/LaunchDaemons/com.squeak.seaside.plist Aug 1 21:57:51 Super-Lan-Boy launchd: com.squeak.seaside: exited abnormally: Abort trap Aug 1 21:57:51 Super-Lan-Boy launchd: com.squeak.seaside: respawning too quickly! throttling Aug 1 21:57:51 Super-Lan-Boy launchd: com.squeak.seaside: 9 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal ... keeps going until finally... Aug 1 21:59:11 Super-Lan-Boy launchd: com.squeak.seaside: will restart in 10 seconds Aug 1 21:59:21 Super-Lan-Boy launchd: com.squeak.seaside: exited abnormally: Abort trap Aug 1 21:59:21 Super-Lan-Boy launchd: com.squeak.seaside: respawning too quickly! throttling Aug 1 21:59:21 Super-Lan-Boy launchd: com.squeak.seaside: too many failures in succession For the curious, here is what my launchctl plist looks like at the moment: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http:// www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>GroupName</key> <string>appserverusr</string> <key>Label</key> <string>com.squeak.seaside</string> <key>OnDemand</key> <false/> <key>Program</key> <string>/usr/local/bin/squeak</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>-vm-display-null</string> <string>-vm-sound-null</string> <string>-headless</string> <string>/Applications/Smalltalk/Seaside-2/Seaside-2.8-573.image</ string> </array> <key>ServiceIPC</key> <false/> <key>UserName</key> <string>appserver</string> </dict> </plist> Then you attempt to invoke it with: sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.squeak.seaside.plist Cheers, -- Aaron