Comments on: Democracy problems on OSX?

By: Nicholas Reville

Nicholas Reville — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:22:06 +0000

we’ve just posted a fixed version. let me know if any of you are still having problems.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:41:39 +0000

Doesn’t even open for me. Says it quit unexpectedly. Tried everything listed above, doesn’t work…

Please post a fixed version soon! :c(

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:59:01 +0000

Since I’ve updated to 0.9.5, Democracy freezes on start. The only thing I can do is resize the window, or force it quit.
Now, I can’t downgrade to 0.9.2, because it changed my library/database/something like that…
Yes, I’m running on a Mac 10.4.8, and no, I don’t even use Camino (I prefer Firefox).
What might be the problem with this?

By: xtraa

xtraa — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:57:26 +0000

Hi,

I discovered that it wasn’t growl or camino, but it was SIMBL here. Also have a look in the library/input managers/ folder on your root, just in cas you installed a plugin for all users.

By: rampancy

rampancy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:03:19 +0000

If you’re having problems with the current 0.9.5 build, maybe one of the nightlies might help.

http://participatoryculture.org/nightlies/

On this page you can also download the previous 0.9.2.1 build too.

AFAIK, 0.9.5 works fine on my MBP, but crashes on launch on my G3 iBook. Both computers have the same set of Camino, Growl, and InputManager extensions installed.

By: Luca Nonato

Luca Nonato — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:17:40 +0000

Hi!

I had the same problem: Democracy Player quitting without even showing the main window… Updating GrowlCode to last version fixed the problem…

Cheers!
Luca

By: Nicholas Reville

Nicholas Reville — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:02:55 +0000

mbritt- i am nicholas-at-pculture.org

By: Wez Furlong

Wez Furlong — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:17:20 +0000

This got things working for me:

rm -rf /Library/InputManagers/GrowlCamino

Note that this is the system not the per use library.

By: mbritt

mbritt — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:18:02 +0000

Okay. What is Nicholas’s email address?

By: wm

wm — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:08:57 +0000

Go into your ~/Library/InputManagers (Home:Library:InputManagers).
Try to move every single file/folder thats inside there into another directory and restart Democracy. If it’s working have a look at the files you moved afterwards – they might or might not be among the InputManagers mentioned above. If so post them here and someone might have a clue whats wrong.

If that still don’t help (or you do not even have files/folders in that directory) than try to send the file Democracy.crash.log from the directory ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter (Home:Library:Logs:CrashReporter) together some usefull information to Nicholas – this might help him to discover what went wrong.
But if you do that please delete that file and let Democracy crash one time afterwards, then zip the newly created file. No one is fond of having his mailaccount full of useless redundant information (every times Democracy crashes it writes probably the same information into that file which gets pretty large after a while).