MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, Starting Maple 12 on OS X; successful install, program will not launch

Since the issue seems to be

gulliet — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:27:05 Z

Since the issue seems to be related to file and/or folder access privileges, I would suggest to run Disk Utility to check, and repair if needed, any access authorization inconsistencies on the system file. Start Disk Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities), select the hard drive where your system resides, in the tab First Aid select Verify Disk Permissions. Wait for the process to finish. If any error are reported, click on Repair Disk Permissions. The following documents might be worth reading: Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later to verify or repair disks, and also Mac OS X - Using Disk Utility to Repair a Disk. HTH, --Jean-Marc

Are you using Maple from the

gulliet — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:17:16 Z

Are you using Maple from the same account with which you did the installation? Also, you could check the permissions, owner, and group with the ls command. For instance,

ls -lah /Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions/12/bin/

total 192
drwxrwxr-x  13 root      admin   442B Dec 21 11:39 .
drwxrwxr-x  16 root      admin   544B Sep 28 22:51 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   1.0K Aug  8 19:05 Maple12.png
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   1.0K Aug  8 19:05 Maple12Classic.png
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   323B Aug  8 19:05 TestMaple
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   5.6K Aug  8 19:05 activation
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   2.7K Aug  8 19:05 linux_shlibs
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root      admin    18K Dec 21 11:39 maple
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   2.3K Aug  8 19:05 maple.system.type
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jeanmarc  admin    18K Oct 13 11:28 maple_Maple12.01_Upgrade_Backup
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin    18K Sep 29 23:58 maple_Maple12.02_Upgrade_Backup
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   903B Aug  8 19:05 mint
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      admin   417B Aug  8 19:05 xmaple

Regards, --Jean-Marc

OK. Something was wrong in

gulliet — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:34:12 Z

OK. Something was wrong in the way you installed Maple. For most of the file, owner should be root and the x permission (execute) should be set for the owner, the owner group, and everybody else. Permissions can be changed via the command chmod, but I would not change them manually for the overall installation seems to be really messed up in term of security. So, you could reinstall Maple 12 or also ask Maplesoft technical support for more advice, possibly a shell script that would repair the all hierarchy. Regards, --Jean-Marc

trash Maple and reinstall (Mac OS X)

roman_pearce — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:07:27 Z

You can trash your Maple 12 installation on OS X and reinstall. Open a terminal and type the following: sudo bash rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions/12 Then delete Maple from the Applications folder. Hopefully when you reinstall it will work. If not, does the same thing happen ?

Manual change of permissions works (sort of).

mforbes — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:29:45 Z

I was having the same problem with Maple 12 and Maple 13 on OS X 10.5.8. Manually allowing execute permission for the following files allows me to run xmaple and maple from the command line. I still can't launch the .app and am waiting to hear back from tech support about exactly which files need their permissions modified:

cd /Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions
sudo ln -s 13 Current    # The installer log showed that this failed.
cd Current/bin
sudo chmod a+x sudo chmod a+x xmaple maple mint maple.system.type linux_shlibs activation TestMaple
sudo chown  xmaple maple mint maple.system.type linux_shlibs activation TestMaple 
cd ../bin.APPLE_UNIVERSAL_OSX/
sudo chmod a+x profile nprofile mserver* mplot* mjava mint help_* mfsd lmutil cmaple 
sudo chown  profile nprofile mserver* mplot* mjava mint help_* mfsd lmutil cmaple

I have also changed the ownership of the executables to an unprivileged user to prevent them from running as root though I really think this should not be an issue. At least this should let you get up and running with xmaple and command line maple (by running these from the /Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions/Current/bin/ directory. *Update* The application fails to run because the following file also needs it's permissions set (I found this out based on the tech support suggestion to inspect the Console):

sudo chmod a+x /Applications/Maple\ 13/Maple\ 13.app/Contents/MacOS/Maple\ 13

Now I can also launch the application.

ls -lah

Emichan032 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:13:44 Z

ls -lah /Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions/12/bin/

total 112
drwxr-xr-x 11 emcdowell admin   374B Jan 22 20:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 emcdowell admin   476B Jan 22 20:53 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   1.0K Jan 22 21:46 Maple12.png
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   1.0K Jan 22 21:46 Maple12Classic.png
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   323B Jan 22 21:46 TestMaple
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   5.6K Jan 22 21:46 activation
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   2.7K Jan 22 21:46 linux_shlibs
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin    18K Jan 22 21:46 maple
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   2.3K Jan 22 21:46 maple.system.type
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   903B Jan 22 21:46 mint
-rw-r--r--   1 emcdowell admin   417B Jan 22 21:46 xmaple

Here seems to be the problem. But yes, I did intall on the same account I am trying to launch from.