Re: ELAN 2.5.1 / ELAN 3.0 on MacBook Pro

Posted by hasloe at 2007-02-20 15:42

So, the settings seem to be alright then. Just to be sure you could test by opening a Terminal window and type

 java -version

The output should contain something like 1.5.x.

The presence of a xerces.jar in /Library/Java/Extensions in your home folder might be the problem. ELAN uses a Xerces library for parsing the eaf files and if your xerces is an older version then needed, reading the file might fail. You can check by (temporarily) moving this jar file to another folder and launch any of the ELAN 3.0 versions you have (installed or Web Start) and open a file.
If this does not help then please send the complete Console report to me by email. Or if you tested the installed version instead, open a Terminal window and do:
cd .elan_data
ls -al
locate the most recent elan.log (elan0.log or elan1.log) and then:
cat elan(x).log

Copy the complete output and mail it to me for inspection.
Han

Re: Re: ELAN 2.5.1 / ELAN 3.0 on MacBook Pro

Posted by researcher at 2007-02-21 12:33

When I ran the terminal command to check the version of Java I got the following -

Harrys-17:~ harryharm$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_09"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_09-239)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-66, mixed mode)

I have tried deleting the Java preferences files in the two libraries and then ran Java preferences again to make sure that I had the right order. Terminal still returns 1.4.2_09.

However, I have some good news. I removed the xerces.jar file from the /users/harryharm/library/java/extensions/ folder and started ELAN 3.0. All of my tiers are back again.

Thank you, Han, for this advice.

BTW, here is the information on my xerces.jar file -

Created: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:21 pm

If I open an EAF file, close it but leave ELAN 3.0 running and then try to open the same or another EAF file I get the "initializing" error I got in 2.5.1. The same "initializing" error happens if I try to try to open a second EAF file without closing the first one.

I just checked ELAN 2.5.1 and it still has the "initializing" error.

The webstart version of ELAN 3.0 exhibits the same behavior as the regular ELAN 3.0.

I tried removing the other .JAR files in the extensions folder which were marked by Java Console as possible problems to see whether that would help but it didn't.

However, I am happy that I can at least use ELAN again.

Researcher :-{)

Re: Re: Re: ELAN 2.5.1 / ELAN 3.0 on MacBook Pro

Posted by hasloe at 2007-02-22 08:57

Well then, it will now be necessary to have a look at the complete output in the Java console (Webstart version) and/or the log file (regular ELAN) as it is after you get the 'initializing' error. To view the contents of the log file you'll probably have to quit ELAN first. In an earlier post I have described where to find the log file and how to view it's contents.

Han

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