[AstroPy] Weird Pyraf issues

[Doug Burke]

Apple decided to "improve" things in Mojave, which broke DS9. The latest
beta release (8.1b2) should fix this -
https://twitter.com/SAOImageDS9/status/1161031804695896064 - or, for a
more-direct link - see http://ds9.si.edu/site/Beta.html

I don't know if this helps Nic [there was unfortunately no follow up to
Karl's remark at
https://twitter.com/karlglazebrook/status/1161785531551797250 ]

Doug

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 9:42 AM Zhu Fei-Fan <zff1991 at mail.ustc.edu.cn>
wrote:

> The recent version of DS9 (mac) also suffer from the very same issue under
> OS X 10.14.6.
>
>
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 08:00, Nicholas Ross <npross at roe.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am having big difficulties with my Pyraf install, namely, my whole
>> MacBook Pro (OS X 10.14.6)
>> crashes whenever I try and simply open an IRAF graphics window, e.g.
>>
>> > source activate iraf27
>>         (iraf27) ~/DataReduction/20190628 > ipython
>>         Python 2.7.16 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Aug 22 2019, 10:59:10)
>>         Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>         IPython 5.8.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
>>         ?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
>>         %quickref -> Quick reference.
>>         help      -> Python's own help system.
>>         object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra
>> details.
>>         Using matplotlib backend: TkAgg
>>
>>         In [1]: from pyraf import iraf
>>
>>         In [2]: iraf.splot('r2824072.fit[1]’)
>>
>> From here, I get directly booted out and back to the Mac login screen
>> (yup, seriously!)
>>
>> I’ve just re-installed the conda distribution from
>> https://astroconda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/updating.html#updating-conda
>> > conda create -n iraf27 python=2.7 iraf-all pyraf-all stsci
>>
>> However, if I start an xgterm, and then do
>> > cl
>> and run IRAF from that command line, I can then do splot fine.
>>
>> Any help would be *SO* appreciated!!
>>
>> Yours,
>> Nic
>>
>>
>> ====================================
>>   Dr. Nicholas P. Ross
>>   STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow
>>   Institute for Astronomy
>>   University of Edinburgh
>>   Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill
>>   Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom
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