<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For posterity, the problem turned out to be that the user had the permissions on his Library/Frameworks folder set such the he himself couldn't access the folder. Changing the permissions solved the problem. We will see if there is anything Chimera can do to detect/sidestep the problem in the future.<div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:02 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 7, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Pat Heath wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>It starts to open and then quits. User was previously running 1.5 fine. Another user on the same machine can open chimera 1.7 just fine. Makes me think there is a file that needs thrown away from the other user that was generated by version 1.5. I deleted the .chimera folder, but that didn't help. Any ideas?</div></blockquote><br></div><div>After a crash, are there any messages either in the "All Messages" or "Console Messages" section of Console.app (in the Utilities folder of /Applications) that appear related (e.g. a stack trace for python 2.7)? If you start Chimera from the command line with the --debug flag, what output do you get? [to start from the command line; open Terminal.app (also in Utilities folder) and drag the Chimera icon into the terminal window; the path to the app will appear; append "/Contents/Resources/bin/chimera --debug" to the path and hit Return].</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><br><div>
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