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
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
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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