Z standalone 3.0b2.1 Mac OS X does not start

meanmachine
Z standalone 3.0b2.1 Mac OS X does not start. The symbol just blinks up in the Dock and disappears.

No error logs under ~/Library/Logs/Crashreporter.

OSX 10.6.8
Sophos Anti-Virus 7.3.3
FF6.0.1 with addons Zotero 2.1.8 and MacWord-Plugin 3.1.6 and OO-Plugin 3.5b1 installed
LibreOffice 3.4.3

Uninstalling WordprocessorPlugins does not help, neither does forcing Z standalone in 32bit mode (cmd + i and enabling 32bit mode).

Anyone any ideas ?
Thanks in advance
  • Simon
    Try opening /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and opening Zotero from the command line by typing

    /Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/MacOS/zotero -jsconsole

    Does that give you anything?
  • meanmachine
    Thanks, I appreciate your fast response.

    It says in Terminal :


    Could not find the Mozilla runtime.
  • Simon
    Have you tried reinstalling?
  • meanmachine
    edited September 1, 2011
    a thousand times
  • meanmachine
    Something strange:

    when I start Standalone out of the Diskimage, it starts just fine.

    Yet, Zotero.app in the Applications folder does not start.
  • dstillman
    Have you actually deleted Zotero.app from the Applications folder and then copied a new version from the disk image to it, instead of just overwriting the old one?
  • meanmachine
    Yes ! I deleted, redownloaded and reinstalled it.

    Unfortunately, the result is the same.
  • Simon
    Can you go to your computer (Go->Computer), click the drive you're installing onto, go to File->Get Info, and tell us what's listed under "Format" in the window?
  • meanmachine
    That would be:

    Mac OS Extended (Groß-/Kleinschreibung und Journaled)

    which translates into :

    mac os extended case-sensitive journaled
  • meanmachine
    Let me guess:
    Standalone finds Mozilla's runtime only on NON-case-sensitive formated drives.
    The disk image is not case-sensitive, therefore the runtime is found.

    Thank you very much for your time and your help ( and for fixing this in the next version)
  • Simon
    edited September 1, 2011
    It's a bug in the Mozilla runtime. I'll report it, but it's unlikely to be fixed for at least 6 weeks. There is a workaround. From the Terminal:

    ln -s XUL.framework /Applications/Zotero.app/Contents/Frameworks/XUL.Framework

    But running a case-sensitive file system is really not recommended, and will break a lot of other applications too.
  • meanmachine
    Zotero is actually the first application that had problems with the case sensitivity since I have migrated from ubuntu 5 years ago.


    The workaround works great! Thanks a lot for your help.

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