[Tkinter-discuss] IDLE can't be opened

[Petr Tvrdik]

When I open the Console after IDLE launch failure, it says:

Dock: LSOpenFromURLSpec(file:///Users/Michal/Scripting/1.%20IDLE%202.7) failed with -10810

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> On Jun 19, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Petr Tvrdik <petr.tvrdik at genetics.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> cd ~
> sudo rm -rf .idlerc
> cd Desktop
> /usr/local/bin/idle2.7
> 
> and I got:
> 
> MacBook-Tanya:Desktop Michal$ /usr/local/bin/idle2.7
> -bash: /usr/local/bin/idle2.7: Permission denied
> 
> I have also reset ownership
> 
> sudo chown Michal /Users/Michal/
> 
> but IDLE still cannot be opened
> 
> please help if you can
> 
> thank you
> 
> petr
> 
> 
>> On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:38 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> [Petr, please reply to the mailing list, not directly to me, so that others can contribute to or benefit from the discussion.  Thanks!]
>> 
>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 08:46, Petr Tvrdik <ptvrdik at genetics.utah.edu> wrote:
>>> I have noticed that even inside my /usr/local/bin/ directory, idle2.7 or idle3.4 commands do not work
>>> however, when I use ’sudo idle2.7’ or ’sudo idle3.4’ both work flawlessly with the new ActiveTcl 
>>> so my problem seems to be more related to root privileges and unix folder structure perhaps
>> 
>> Are you by any chance trying to launch idle when you have changed your working directory to /usr/local/bin?  You shouldn't do that.
>> 
>> Try the following:
>> 
>> cd ~
>> sudo rm -rf .idlerc
>> cd Desktop
>> /usr/local/bin/idle2.7
>> 
>> and see if that works.  You should never have to run idle undo sudo and you never should!
>> 
>> --
>> Ned Deily
>> nad at acm.org -- []
>> 
>> 
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