Re: st: Snow Leopard breaks Stata file util commands

[Nikos Askitas <askitas@iza.org>]

I used all synonyms. I have Fink and MacPorts but this is not relevant. 
I do need Fink to
go out to the OS. It could not be the path because it is the same with 
stata-se and StataSE.
It does not depend on the command. Doing "shell random_string" where 
random_string
is non-empty produces the error. If it is empty it works properly by 
saying "I need an os command".
As soon as it gets one though and actually tries to fork and execute it 
fails. The failure comes
before the command is tried as "random string" proves.
I will give the link a shot.

> Which command are you running to shell out to the OS?
> -winexec ls-  ?
> -!ls -  ?
>  -shell ls-  ?
>
> This could very well be an issue with the Stata - Snow Leopard 
> interaction since it works with interactive mode but not in batch 
> mode, but it might be a problem with your computer's $PATH order, 
> $SHELL, or bash_profile.    I don't have 10.6 on my machine yet to 
> test this, but I am curious about whether this is some problem with 
> your $PATH order...take a look in terminal.    Have you installed 
> MacPorts or Fink previously (during the upgrade/migration/install you 
> may have removed/moved something that affected a dynamically linked 
> library that it relies on)?
>
>
> What happens if you run -!/bin/ls- or -shell "/bin/ls"-  ( instead of 
> just -!ls- or -shell ls-)?    If this is your issue, you can either 
> change your PATH so that /bin and /sbin are ahead of /opt/local/bin 
> and /opt/local/sbin or throw out all of your fink or macports 
> install.  If this is not the issue, I'd be interested to see some from 
> Stata respond--I've had success in contacting their tech support 
> directly when it's this kind of issue ( 
> http://www.stata.com/support/tech-support/ ).
>
>
> Best,
>
> Eric
>
>
> __
> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
> Office: +979.845.6754
>
>
> On Aug 31, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Nikos Askitas wrote:
>
> > I have recently installed Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) on my Macbook Pro
> > (newly purchased) and now "shell, ls, dir" etc do not work in StataSE 
> > 10.
> >
> > To be more precise everything is just fine in command line stata but 
> > they break
> > in GUI stata. MacOS pops up the debugger with a post mordem the most 
> > interesting
> > part of which (and probably the root of the problem is):
> > ......
> > Application Specific Information:
> > USING_FORK_WITHOUT_EXEC_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_FILE_MANAGER
> > abort() called
> > ......
> >
> > It should be noted that stata GUI stata does not really crash. This 
> > indicates that the message
> > above describes the situation: GUI stata is threading without an exec 
> > before and this is no longer
> > allowed in Mac OS 10.6. This crashes the thread but not the application.
> >
> > Large parts of my code relies on the stata file utils and hence is 
> > not working any more. Chances
> > are stata 11 has the same issues. If anybody from stata is listening 
> > a quick fix would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
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