Problems encountered with Mathematica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg102844] Problems encountered with Mathematica
- From: Syd Geraghty <sydgeraghty at mac.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:31:52 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,
I have just installed Snow Leopard ... see system details below.
1 The 1st indication of potential problems was that double clicked
Mathematica notebooks were opened by Apple Numbers by default.
That was reset by opening a notebook with Mathematica and resetting
the application association.
2 The 1st open notebook generated the error:
"Assertion '(Unknown OS Error)' failed at LikeResource.c:56"
However continuing did start Mathematica and run some initial notebooks OK
3 However there is also a problem with Mathematica Documentation Display. For
example
Needs["Benchmarking`"] displays as NeedsC"Benchmarking`"G
and
BenchmarkReport[] displays as BenchmarkReport@D
In spite of that the BenchMark Report runs to completion and displays
OK! and also gives the improvement below:
Excellent speed improvement
MathematicaMark7 Benchmark Report - Snow Leopard 2.21 vs Leopard 1.92
{
{"Machine Name:", "macbookpro-0017f2c973c7-3"},
{"System:", "Mac OS X x86 (64-bit)"},
{"Date:", "August 28, 2009"},
{"Mathematica Version:", "7.0.1"},
{"Benchmark Result:", "2.21"}
}
{
{"Machine Name:", "macbookpro-0017f2c973c7-3"},
{"System:", "Mac OS X x86 (64-bit)"},
{"Date:", "November 21, 2008"},
{"Mathematica Version:", "7.0.0"},
{"Benchmark Result:", "1.92"}
}
I expect that I will run across more problems and will be working with
WRI & Apple to resolve my issues.
I wanted to alert MathGroup members ASAP so they may choose to hold on
conversion to Snow Leopard
until the problems are better understood or fixes become available.
Best wishes ... Syd
Syd Geraghty B.Sc, M.Sc.
sydgeraghty at mac.com
Mathematica 7.0.1 for Mac OS X x86 (64 - bit) (18th February 2009)
MacOS X V 10.5.6
MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM