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Re: osascript: application isn't running. huh?
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Re: osascript: application isn't running. huh?


  • Subject: Re: osascript: application isn't running. huh?
  • From: Paul Scott <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:19:03 -0800

Try this:

1. Log onto console.
2. Log on via ssh (from another machine) as same user.
3. Run script reed (which accepts loop count as argument):

#!/bin/bash
osascript - $1 <<'EOF'
on run argv
set foo to {}
repeat with i from 1 to item 1 of argv
    set end of foo to i
end repeat
return foo
end run
EOF


~ 7:03pm %./reed 999999999

4. While script is running, log out of console.

5. Script dies with this output:

osascript[469] <Warning>: CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server
osascript[469] <Warning>: CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server
osascript[469] <Error>: kCGErrorRangeCheck : On-demand launch of the Window Server is allowed for root user only.
osascript[469] <Error>: kCGErrorRangeCheck : Set a breakpoint at CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are returned
osascript[469:10b] HIToolbox: received notification of WindowServer event port death.
osascript[469:10b] port matched the WindowServer port created in BindCGSToRunLoop
26:99: execution error: Application isn't running. (-600)


Maybe not timeout as such, but surely timing. "Application isn't running" is obviously associated with inability to communicate with window server, and script ends when notification is received; obviously some work is done before the error is propagated.

But is there a way to get osascript to work correctly without attaching to the window server? Dunno. But I'd like to.

Paul


On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Paul Scott wrote:

Mark J. Reed wrote:
And it only happens when I'm ssh'ed in; in Terminal on console, I can
build arbitrarily long lists, to the point where it takes a long time
for the script to run, and osascript patiently waits for it to
complete...

Even if you're ssh'd in, the script will work if you're also logged in on the console.
It fails after what appears to be a connection timeout period if you're not logged
in to the console. I've tried it on different machines, and the timeout sometimes
happens at 22, or 23, or 24. I'm pretty sure it's a timeout especially considering
the error says "execution error: Application isn't running." [anymore!]


Paul


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