We're getting several reports: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-04/msg00643.html

Stan posted a detailed crash report on PowerBook (according to Graham, the Intel version works fine):

Version: 2.11.45-1 (Build from Sat Apr 26 00:40:44 2008)

PID: 452 Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9012cab0 _malloc_initialize + 1016 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900163e8 malloc_default_zone + 44 2 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a3da30 _objc_internal_zone + 108 3 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a3d980 _objc_init_class_hash + 48 4 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a3d030 map_images + 96 5 dyld 0x8fe0f5bc ImageLoaderMachO::doNotification (dyld_image_mode, unsigned, dyld_image_info const*) + 108 6 dyld 0x8fe035c4 dyld::notifyAdding (std::vector<ImageLoader*, std::allocator<ImageLoader*> >&) + 260 7 dyld 0x8fe0dc4c ImageLoader::link (ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, ImageLoader::BindingLaziness, ImageLoader::InitializerRunning, unsigned) + 324 8 dyld 0x8fe04070 dyld::link(ImageLoader*, ImageLoader::BindingLaziness, ImageLoader::InitializerRunning) + 380 9 dyld 0x8fe089cc addImage(void*, char const*, bool, bool, bool, bool) + 180 10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9004b710 NSAddImage + 96 11 org.lilypond.lilypond 0x000067b4 main + 76 12 org.lilypond.lilypond 0x000018a4 start + 68 <snip>

from .44 on, I have tried to use a LilyPad inversal binary supplied by Nicolas Sceaux. I guess this means it was not a success.

As noted on the list, both .44 and .45 do run correctly (so far as I know) from command line.

yes, this only refers to the GUI wrapper.

So summarizing, we have

10.3 ppc : ? 10.4 ppc : broken 10.4 x86 : ok 10.5 x86 : ok (using the ppc build)

I did not have access to an intel machine until this morning. I find the same behavior on my intel iMac running OS 10.4.11-- Lilypond v. 45 crashes on loading. I checked further and v. 2.11.44-1 also crashes on loading. v. 2.11.43-2 loads and runs correctly.

Full disclosure- I use Fink to manage Linux/Unix software, but the project is designed to be unobtrusive. I tried (on the PPC machine) running 2.11.45 on a new test account (with no path to fink files in /sw) and Lilypond showed the same behavior.

I think we have to declare this experiment failed. I'll build new binaries for .45 tonight.

The new binary (2.11.45-2) works on my 10.4 ppc machine. Thanks!

Great! Let's consider this issue closed.